Reply To: Images Gone After Server move

10/29/2014 at 1:05 pm #308454
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Joel

GD is a server level app (lets call it an app) for image editing such as scaling and cropping.

The images for Connections are uploading just fine, they just can not be scaled and cropped. Same for WordPress. All the previous server move WordPress images are already scaled which is why you do not have further issues with WordPress itself … not sure what would happen if WP actually needed one of the scaled images it creates when updating an image. My guess, a blank spot.

I can recommend a host, SiteGround. I suggest their GoGeek plan:
http://www.siteground.com/wordpress-hosting.htm

And then for caching, instead of W3TC, use WP Rocket. It’s supported by SiteGround and there’s 20% off deal for SiteGround users:
http://blog.siteground.com/wp-rocket/

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I’ll get a few months free if you do :)

Even if I did not get that perk, I would still recommend them.

Hope that helps!