The title almost says it all. Our mission is to save the bandwidth cost (and ensure better deliverability) by leveraging the power of headless installation of copy.com client in Linux, and then integrating it into WordPress. The integration must work seamlessly so that the viewers don’t see a difference, and at the same time you don’t have to put any extra effort. Beside saving bandwidth, this also reduces extra load from your web server. There’s another surprise which I will tell you later. For now, keep reading 🙂

You need at least a VPS to make this setup working, preferably with root access. These days VPSes are cheap. You can purchase an 128MB VPS for ~14/yr from Ramnode (such a fantastic provider) or may be for ~19/yr from WeLoveServers. Or feel free to use your existing VPSes if you have one.

Step 1: Headless installation of copy.com app
You can use your existing copy.com or register a new one using my referral code http://copy.com?r=Tbcrni, you and I both will be getting an extra 5GB if you do so.

Now log into your linux box via SSH, you need to have root privilege to complete this step.
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