Scout Control Panel

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Rolling a Site Back using Scout‘s Backups

Deleted something you shouldn’t have? Made a change that broke your site? Scout’s backups make recovery effortless. One click and you’re back online. Step 1: Open Your Site Log into cloudabove.com and open your Scout Control Panel. Click the Settings icon beside the site you need to restore. Step 2:…

Creating a Staging Site on Scout

Want to test changes before they go live? A staging site lets you clone your live website and test everything in a safe sandbox. Here’s how to set one up. Step 1: Create a New Site Log into cloudabove.com and open your Scout Control Panel. Click “Add a site” in…

Easy WebP Image Optimisation on Scout

Speed up your site instantly. WebP images are smaller and faster, but Scout handles the complexity so you don’t have to. One click to enable. WebP is Google’s preferred modern image format for the web because it offers superior compression (lossy and lossless), creating significantly smaller files than JPEG, PNG,…

Suspending Access to a Site on Scout

Need to take a site offline for a bit? Whether you’re performing maintenance or just need a temporary “time-out” for a project, the Scout Control Panel makes it incredibly easy to toggle access on and off. Step 1: Log In to Scout Control Panel First, head over to cloudabove.com and…

Scout‘s WordPress Dashboard Protection feature

If you would like to strengthen your WordPress site’s security, Scout’s WordPress Dashboard Protection feature restricts access to the WordPress administrative dashboard (or wp-admin) by IP address. The protection still allows normal users to login, such as customers of a WooCommerce installation or members of a MemberPress installation, but they…

Setting a Staging site to Live in Scout Control Panel

So you’ve built yourself a new site on a temporary/subdomain and you now want to set it live on another domain, perhaps one you’ve registered recently specially for this site. There’s a couple of different ways to do this in Scout, this guide will show you how to do both. 💡Note:…

Analyzing Site Disk/Storage Usage on Scout

Running out of storage? Need to find what’s eating up your disk space? SSH and the ncdu command make it easy to see exactly which files and folders are the culprits. What You’ll Need SSH access to your site — You’ll connect via terminal or SSH client. Terminal or SSH…

Site Modes in Scout – Live, Development and Debugging

The Scout provides three distinct Site Modes – Live, Development, and Debugging to help you manage your website effectively depending on its lifecycle stage. Each mode adjusts caching, search engine visibility, and diagnostic tools to suit your needs. Live Mode Purpose: Default mode for production websites. Features: Enables all caching…

Change PHP memory limit and other settings on Scout

The Scout Control Panel allows you to manage PHP settings for your hosted websites. Adjusting these settings can help optimize performance, handle larger scripts, and customize your environment to suit application requirements. This article explains how to change the PHP memory limit and other PHP-related configurations. Prerequisites Access to your…

CRON Jobs (Scheduled Tasks) on Scout

Automate repetitive tasks with scheduled jobs. Whether you need to clean up data every night, fetch data hourly, or run maintenance scripts, CRON jobs let your site work while you sleep. Step 1: Open Site Settings Log into cloudabove.com and open your Scout Control Panel. Click the Settings icon beside…