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Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#11

Post by dugmartin » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 4:42 PM UTC

You could also use git-svn to checkout the latest release branch:

http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.2.1

and then deploy to Heroku directly using git.

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#12

Post by rograndom » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 5:22 PM UTC

Plugins and themes cannot currently be installed through /wp-admin due to the PHP not having a zlib extension. Installation via git works fine though.

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#13

Post by xdite » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 5:25 PM UTC

http://evening-beach-7140.herokuapp.com/ # This is my install steps ( Install Wordpress on Heroku )

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#14

Post by nixarn » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 6:50 PM UTC

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #2

It would be very interesting to see how something like this compares to running Wordpress at http://wpengine.com

wpengine sounds really expensive. $49/month for just 50k pageviews. My $39/month Linode setup handles a million page views with no sweat.

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#15

Post by wyck » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 7:13 PM UTC

dugmartin wrote: post #11

You could also use git-svn to checkout the latest release branch: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.2.1 and then deploy to Heroku directly using git.

One of WordPress's devs maintains a WordPress github updated every 30 minutes, so even easier.

https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#16

Post by wyck » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 7:17 PM UTC

nixarn wrote: post #14

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #2

It would be very interesting to see how something like this compares to running Wordpress at http://wpengine.com

wpengine sounds really expensive. $49/month for just 50k pageviews. My $39/month Linode setup handles a million page views with no sweat.

That is not a very good comparison, linode as you know does not provide the same feature set nor does it have WordPress devs on hand to help.

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#17

Post by mnml_ » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 7:18 PM UTC

This is great but, whats the best way to store attachments ?

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#18

Post by ashleyw » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 7:21 PM UTC

rograndom wrote: post #12

Plugins and themes cannot currently be installed through /wp-admin due to the PHP not having a zlib extension. Installation via git works fine though.

With Heroku you can only write to /tmp from your app.

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#19

Post by lootabooga » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 9:18 PM UTC

wyck wrote: post #16

nixarn wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wpengine sounds really expensive. $49/month for just 50k pageviews. My $39/month Linode setup handles a million page views with no sweat.

That is not a very good comparison, linode as you know does not provide the same feature set nor does it have WordPress devs on hand to help.

No, but you can pay someone $100 to install it for you and more or less forget it afterwards (since even WP version updates are mostly automatic from the admin UI --and even themes can be installed that way now).

Or, even better, use a Linode image with WP already installed, boot it and you're in business.

Re: Wordpress on Heroku

#20

Post by JoeP » Fri, Sep 16, 2011, 9:19 PM UTC

wyck wrote: post #16

nixarn wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wpengine sounds really expensive. $49/month for just 50k pageviews. My $39/month Linode setup handles a million page views with no sweat.

That is not a very good comparison, linode as you know does not provide the same feature set nor does it have WordPress devs on hand to help.

Even so, $49 a month is a LOT of money for not that much.