To me, building WordPress sites and applications is mostly fun — from listening to client’s requirements to showing her the finished site. This process, though, consists of one important, but not very fun part: deployment. Using a cheap hosting solution, with no WordPress optimizations, might work for some but when you want to be sure …
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The most typical conversation (aside from which plugins to use) in the WordPress sphere is about the speed comparisons between various web serving software like Apache or Nginx. There are tens of articles with nice charts and big claims on the Internet: Nginx is faster than Apache. HHVM is faster than PHP-FPM and so on. …
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In the second article of the Ansible and WordPress series, we discussed the basic Ansible project structure and setting up WP-CLI and PHP. Today, I’ll walk you through creating a new database, adding a new user with correct permissions to this database, downloading WordPress with WP-CLI and configuring it properly to use our newly created …
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Since writing the article on why you should use Ansible for managing your WordPress deploys on VPS servers, I’ve added some basic configurations to my GitHub repo about this topic. In this article, we’ll be discussing how the standard Ansible project folder structure looks like and I’ll show you how to set up simple roles …
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In this series of articles, we’ll be automating server (VPS) configuration with the help of Ansible, an open source IT automation platform. Interested in not having to install and set up Apache/Nginx, PHP and MySQL with WordPress on your VPS servers manually? Then read more! But first, let me tell you a short story of …
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