Technical capabilities of wordpress
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Hello, I’d like to migrate my blog to wordpress.com and want to make sure that it meets my requirements:
1. Is the custom path prefix mysite.com/blog/ available?
2. Can I close the blog by HTTP Basic Auth?
3. What server access time (SLO) provides (99.95% or more)?
4. Do blog fall under scanners and DoS attacks (not DDoS, but under a massive stream of similar requests)?
5. Do WP have a caching CDN? or other rate limits when scanning?
Thank you.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
First let me clarify there’s a difference between the free WordPress software and our managed hosted service. You could do virtually anything with the free software and plugins, with the right hosting and resources to manage it. We offer our service as to make things simpler for our users.
https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/Custom url structure would only be available with the business plan. You could easily use https://blog.mysiteaddress.com if you’d like, though, by mapping a subdomain.
I’m not positive what you mean re: closing the blog. If you want to restrict access though you can make the entire site private, or password protect individual posts and pages, or use premium content blocks: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/premium-content-block/
I don’t have current long-term uptime stats. It’s very, very high though. I’ve worked here many years and we’ve had very few outages. http://automatticstatus.com/ We have a systems team that helps mitigate attacks and what not as well.
We do have a CDN and caching to help keep things optimized, but they’re quite responsive. Can you clarify what you mean re: rate limits when scanning? Would you be using the API?
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Yes, I plan to upgrade to a paid plan to use mysite.com/blog/ url.
Thanks for the other answers.
Only the last one. Can I upgrade to a paid plan, set up my entire site on one domain (for example mysite.com/new-blog/, and then change the domain on mysite.com/blog/? Or the only way is to choose a final domain name on the first step and then build my blog on this domain. -
Can I upgrade to a paid plan, set up my entire site on one domain (for example mysite.com/new-blog/, and then change the domain on mysite.com/blog/? Or the only way is to choose a final domain name on the first step and then build my blog on this domain.
WordPress.com doesn’t offer staging environments, which sounds like what you’re looking for here. If you’re going to purchase the Business Plan, there are some alternatives you can use as referenced here:
However, this isn’t something that Support can help you with, so the best course of action would be to set up the site under the domain/path you want to use when you’re all done.
I hope that clarifies things!
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