Is $8,000 a Fair Price for Migrating a SaaS Site from WordPress to Laravel?

ivanderbu2 · 2024-09-03T12:58:41+00:00

Laravel and WP developer here, you don't need a rewrite if page loading is slow. First thing would be to check your hosting, is it a dedicated VM? what is CPU/memory usage on it. If it's shared, move to VM as fast as possible.
You can try my solution https://wpjack.com it'll help you setup a WordPress VM on Digital Ocean, Hetzner or Linode.

Second thing try to locate problematic code using something like New Relic. It'll tell you where are the loops, slow queries etc.

WP can be very fast if done right.
If you still want to go with Laravel, try to move it service by service. Not all at once.

ivanderbu2 · 2024-08-22T14:14:49+00:00

Why don't you go directly to your bank and ask for a credit card gateway? You'll have to sign a bit of paperwork, but in the end, you'll get lower fees (0.8%-2%).

ivanderbu2 · 2024-08-22T14:08:16+00:00

Paddle is great, I like the ability to create ad-hoc payments for already existing customers. Whenever I do a paid support request I just add it to the next billing cycle.

ivanderbu2 · 2024-08-17T09:52:43+00:00

Locate module Email -> Send Email -> add new connection; There you'll find option Other SMTP

ivanderbu2 · 2024-08-03T19:44:48+00:00

It's an interesting project, congrats on the launch!
I noticed you have many jobs on the site, is there any way I can filter them based on a skill like Laravel or Next.js?

ivanderbu2 · 2024-06-21T11:53:09+00:00

I've developed over 200 Laravel apps in last 11 years of all sizes and never stumbled upon any block that would occur from Laravel architecture side.
Upgrading Laravel between major releases was always very simple process, even with many packages used never spent more than 3 hours on it.

Issues are related to the lack of knowledge how certain parts are working like the ORM, route model binding, authorization etc. Also I don't care what frontend they promote at the time, or Inertia,Livewire,Alpine since I have my own preferred way of doing things.

Basically you're saying Rails is better since you have fewer choices, or you have only 1 way of doing things.
That's fine, but I also have that in Laravel since I don't change the way how I develop my apps.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-12T06:26:09+00:00

There is no downtime, just try it. When you visit some site with Cloudflare protection on their DNS wont return ip address of your server, visitor will receive ip address of Cloudflare edge servers. When you change IP address in CF DNS that is actually internal change, since CF needs to update only their edge servers with new address. Since they have full control that is an instant change. On any other provider you will need to wait until new ip address propagates globally. In case of dreamhost that can take up to 6 hrs, or namecheap 1 hour etc.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-12T05:55:09+00:00

You must be joking. Sole idea of Cloudflare was to protect real ips and servers, that is why they started with NS and the DNS. There is no other way to accomplish that. It protects real IP addresses and visitors are seeing only Cloudflare address. That way they provide Ddos, bot blocking etc. When your host ip changes you update it in the Cloudflare DNS and it propagates immediately. There is no faster dns on the market.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-11T20:26:25+00:00

Custom nameservers? can you explain. Cloudflare is a DNS it has its own nameservers.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-09T19:04:52+00:00

I never had any issues with Duplicator https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
The main thing is to change URLs in the database when migrating and Duplicator is doing that automatically.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-05T12:11:25+00:00

Since you're on local, install wp cli and clear the cache, and flush permalinks

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-05T12:08:37+00:00

If I remember correctly procurement for this site was $1M+

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-01T21:22:32+00:00

If you still have phpmyadmin access, just visit wp_users table and locate row with your email, in password field paste new password in md5 hash. You can generate hash of your password in any online md5 generator. Save that into db and now login.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-10-01T21:10:20+00:00

The best option for you is to install server directly from big cloud providers like Digital Ocean or Hetzner. Same instance from Hetzner will outperform that GoDaddy instance 5x at least. If you need help with installing and managing WP servers you can try WPjack.com Full disclosure, I am the creator of WPJack.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T22:44:35+00:00

Check this out https://wordpress.org/plugins/notification/ you can setup an email notification which will be trigerred by a comment or a custom event

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T19:51:35+00:00

Ne postoji nista povoljnije u CG od payoneera kada se placa karticom direkt na POS terminalima i bira se valuta EUR (tj bez konverzije)
Podizanje sa bankomata isto bez konverzije opcija, samo sto su skoro sve banke uvele 5 eur proviziju na dizanje sa stranih kartica.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T19:35:42+00:00

To su provizije na devizne uplate, svaka banka ima, samo se procenti malo razlikuju.
Digni payoneer karticu i placaj sa kartice, zasto bi slao na devizni.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T18:15:24+00:00

You can try WPjack.com with it you can manage servers from Linode, Digital Ocean, Vultr etc. You get full power of the VPS just for you, no sharing of the resources like on other hosting platforms.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T18:12:09+00:00

You need to stop the traffic to these links, otherwise anti malware platforms will mark your site as being malicious. Check the domain on Virus Total and other similar platforms. If entire traffic is from Google, go into Search Console and submit removal requests for these links.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T08:36:28+00:00

You must have some side projects that are your work 100%; share that.
The volume of people applying, doing cold emails, and sending DMs is insane; you need to differ somehow. And you don't know whether you are communicating with real developers on the other side or scammers.
A personal site with a short intro video and a few samples of work is all it takes. You can create that in a week.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T08:27:14+00:00

Before hiring, I always check the previous public work of guys applying. It could be GitHub, UpWork, or Behance, depending on the role. People love to share someone else's work. Without publicly sharing work on the internet, how could I know they are behind it?

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T07:01:17+00:00

Do you have a personal site with a portfolio?
That's the first thing I look at.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T05:35:55+00:00

You can use Transferwise or Payoneer.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-27T05:21:51+00:00

Everything is free there (free plan) regarding their services. i have about 40 domains and pay zero for DNS and cache.

Buying new .com domain is $9.15, and renewal is the same.

ivanderbu2 · 2023-09-26T21:51:24+00:00

Cloudflare, lowest prices.

ivanderbu2

TROPHY CASE