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Because the VIP Platform uses NGINX (not Apache), there are no .htaccess files. Redirects for URLs must be handled with alternative methods. The most suitable solution(s) for a site’s redirects should be chosen based on the amount and types of redirects needed.
On the WordPress VIP Platform: New environments are provisioned with a convenience domain. Custom domains for sites are added via the VIP Dashboard. The VIP Dashboard also provides the necessary settings to point DNS for a domain to VIP.
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If answers to questions cannot be found in WordPress VIP’s documentation or in WordPress.org’s resources, the VIP Support team can help.
The page cache is the first level of caching that is encountered by each request made to a WordPress or Node.js environment on the VIP Platform. Responses from origin are cached at VIP's global network of edge cache server locations for future requests.
The VIP Platform’s infrastructure includes several caching layers to enhance site performance.
The complete codebase of a VIP Platform WordPress environment includes WordPress Core, VIP MU plugins, and the custom code committed to the application’s wpcomvip GitHub code repository. The wpcomvip GitHub repository for a WordPress application is based on the vip-go-skeleton.
The VIP File System performs core image processing with a built-in image transformation service similar to Site Accelerator (previously Photon). By default, all images loaded from a site’s wp-content/uploads/ will utilize the VIP File System’s image transformation service and leverage the VIP Platform’s CDN.
Media files uploaded to a WordPress production environment are automatically shared with and available to associated non-production environments. This eliminates the need to copy media between environments as long as the development workflow follows code moving up, and content moving down.
VIP’s Log Shipping automatically saves a full set of HTTP request logs to an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, batching uploads by up to 50MB or every five minutes. The logs are then available for storage, process, or analysis. Logs are an important asset for understanding the use of an application’s system, connectivity issues, performance tuning, usage patterns, and in analyzing service interruptions.