Wordpress Done Right

Wed, 05 Oct 2016 21:44:02 +0200

Wordpress Done Right

Wordpress is 22% of the internet, that is insane. It’s so popular because it makes it so easy for a layman to make a website. The problem is hosting and maintanence, there just doesn’t seem to be any sort of complete (at least to my standards) guide on how to do it right. This my guide on how to host a multi-site wordpress installation.

TLDR: Use Digital Ocean to spin up a Debian Jessie instance, it has PHP 5.6 as the default PHP version in its repos. PHP 5.5 (ubuntu 14.04 default) is no longer supported and the wordpress ecosystem is not yet ready for PHP 7 (ubuntu 16.04 default).

Build your own Heroku with Dokku

Mon, 09 May 2016 07:40:19 +0200

Build your own Heroku with Dokku

Heroku is great! Until you want to build something mildly complex or off script.

It provides a great platform to quickly deploy prototypes witten in pretty much any langauge via git. This allows you to focus on your app and getting your ideas out there IRL. But as with most magic bullets you quickly start to run into their limitations.

Heroku is expensive! 35 USD per dynamo after the free tier, that’s a lot of money, especially for my developing world budget.
They don’t support long running, always up processes very well/at all. Not everything falls into web/worker dichotomy (web scraping).

Enter Dokku and Docker

Dokku is your very own PAAS in 200 lines of bash. How on earth can you replicate Heroku with a couple of bash files? Simple, by leveraging the awesome power of Docker to spin up isolated application containers. Dokku simply provides some nice wrapper functions around docker to help you manage your containers as if you were deploying them to Heroku (git push deploy and all!).

DigitalOcean on Martin C. Richards

Wordpress Done Right

Wordpress Done Right

Build your own Heroku with Dokku

Build your own Heroku with Dokku

Enter Dokku and Docker