Category Archives: FSB

How to migrate Fresh Store Builder to New Server : Digital Ocean way

In this era competition make everything better. Specially in hosting industry. I used to stick on provider host due to :

  1. Price (cheaper is better)
  2. Stability (good uptime is great)
  3. Fast network (low latency is one of signal I see).
  4. Good support (I love friendly and fast support).

Of course rare communication with support mean the service is great.

In this post I’ll show how to move Fresh Store Builder (FSB) from one host to another host. In this case I’ll move FSB I install on Vultr to Digital Ocean. (At the moment both provider give me good impression specially Digital Ocean that I use more than 1 year but Vultr also good since they backed up by Choopa who provide good online gaming infrastructure).

Lets get start migration process.

Create Droplet on Digital Ocean

I use closest location to UK (Vultr way). This time I choose Amsterdam.

fsb_do1

Ubuntu version also same 12.04 x64. More →

Optimization Tips for Fresh Store Builder Owner

Last post about how to install Fresh Store Builder (FSB) under VPS using ServerPilot on Vultr lead me to a few things. One of them is optimization. Many FSB owner are non coder and non server folks.

A few things that they can do to optimize the store are :

1. Choosing closest server

If you targeting Amazon UK user then you might want to serve your UK customer using server that located in UK.

If you use Vultr server then you can use UK location.

vultr_server

If you use Digital Ocean then you can choose Amsterdam location.

digitalocean_server

2. Tweaking Server Setting

By default vps server configured by ServerPilot is more than enough for common task but they do provide a few ‘setting’ left for end user (vps owner).

You can check those aspects using gtmetrix page. For example hosting formula store I create yesterday. Gtmetrix score is here :

gtmetrix_hostingformula_store

A few notes from Yslow grade :

yslow_fsb

Click the recommendation for “add expire headers” and I see :

http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js
http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1
https://twitter.com/i/jot?l=%7B%22_category_%22%3A%22tfw_client_event%22%2C%22language%22%3A%22en%22%2C%22client_version%22%3A%221.1%3Am%3Ac%22%2C%22widget_origin%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fstore.hostingformula.net%2F%22%2C%22format_version%22%3A1%2C%22triggered_on%22%3A1401866628263%2C%22event_namespace%22%3A%7B%22client%22%3A%22tfw%22%2C%22page%22%3A%22button%22%2C%22section%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22action%22%3A%22impression%22%7D%7D
http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstore.hostingformula.net%2F&callback=twttr.receiveCount
https://apis.google.com/js/api.js
https://oauth.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/js/core:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js?c=2

That resource is not located in my server and that’s why I can not set the expire from server.

Fortunately all other setting already defined by FSB in .htaccess file.

So far the result is good according to Pagespeed 🙂

Easy VPS for FreshBuilder Store : Vultr Way

I got client who order service for moving his fresh store builder store. He use shared hosting that use cpanel. He don’t want to use cpanel anymore and willing to pay no more than $6/month for his vps server.

I give him two options : using digitalocean or vultr and he choose vultr.

I decide to share experience to hostingformula.net reader on how to build great vps server for freshstore builder user  with minimum hassle 🙂

Create Server on Vultr

Vultr provide vps service start from $5 / month. Fresh Store Builder (FSB) user can use smallest server that Vultr  provide.

1. Login to Vultr and  create an instance

freshbuilder_vps1

Click Deploy New Instance More →

Step by step Install Fresh Store Builder on Localhost

Other series of Fresh Store Builder :

Today I found an online store that looks great and I found its engine called FSB (Fresh Store Builder). Being curious with so many positive testimonial  I’ve conduct a research on it and I like it . That’s why I continue with purchase the license 🙂

After purchase the license I want to continue with installation process but I prefer to do it with localhost way on my Acer Netbook that run Windows 7 starter.

Lets get start!

Preparation

1. Download latest version of FSB from my account.

Step by step Install Fresh Store Builder on Localhost : download latest version of FSB

Save to my document or other folder.

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