Not a good idea?

I have my own Ubuntu WP servers. I edited all my pages in Elementor. Performance is not an issue loading pages. When Elementor breaks like now, then, you are stuck like I am. Content slows down page loads. How your pages are configured and how large your pictures are.

I did some brief research on Ubuntu WP servers and it seems like it is way over my head. My next option was to reach out to my hosting (Bluehost) and see if they can update it to a faster servER…but at this point, I am not bringing in enough traffic or money to make that worthwhile.

What do you mean “when Elementor breaks like now”? how often does it break? I use Elementor Pro and have never had a problem with it, or at least I haven’t noticed it.

I have an HP DL 360e Gen8 server at my house. I have been using WordPress on it for over a year. Elementor for about a year. It worked great. My pages load fast. Editing was a breeze.

I decided to rebuild the Ubuntu servers and used duplicator to move my sites. No errors at all moving them. I put the Godaddy SSL back on. The pages load fine. Only Elementor broke. I can’t edit the pages. The original servers are still intact. I could go back to them.

I have LAMP configured exactly like the original servers. I get a strange permission issue on Elementor. I have been going through both servers and comparing every configuration and setting. I opened tickets with Duplicator, Elementor, and on this site. The new servers have PHPMyAdmin working on them.

It could be a WP / PHP 7.3 issue. JSON issue in the databases. I can’t figure it out.

Two sites are family sites. Before I got married with all my trips to Europe and Carribean. Another, after I got married with my children on it. My political site, a science site for my daughter in the future, and my brother’s coampany site I started for him.

Wow. Sounds serious. Did you use elementor on every page? Or just the home page? I have a blog and rely on google traffic…I am trying to figure out if using Elementor on every page would have such a negative impact on my site speed that it would lower my ranking or turn visitors away.

Every page was elementor.

Good thing is I have backups and the original servers are intact. I just need to regen the Godaddy certs for them. I don’t think it is an elementor issue. I think it is a component. Elementor responded and is looking at it. I created a clean site with a new database. Elementor still didn’t work. I will see what they come up with. I will probably scrap these two servers and restore my old ones and start over. It will be about 1-2 hours of work to redo the certs and DNS for the old sites. I was trying to resize the partitions to save space.

VMWare I created 4 Hard Drives for Ubuntu 16.04.5
/boot 2 GB
/ 25 GB for Mariadb
/var 330 GB for web sites
swap 4 gb.

I created /boot as an /lvm and found a article about why you shouldn’t do it. It just make repairing it harder. I am not sure what broke. I was going latest and greatest on LAMP. Mayhe I do PHP 7.2 instead after reading the 7.3 WP issues.