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Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by neurostimulant »

sopooneo wrote: post #29

Any consultants on here that have to deliver/maintain WordPress sites? If so, mind sharing what your basic workflow is? There are many articles on the web, but they are mostly for very entry level users. The fundamental problem my company runs into with WP is that only a theme can be meaningfully checked into version control. Everything else, including installation of plugins is coupled with entries in the database.…

If you prefer git-based deployment for your wordpress project, bedrock is probably for you: https://roots.io/bedrock/

Also, wp-cli helps a lot in streamlining the project (enabling/disabling plugins, updating site settings, etc, all from command line or deployment script scripts)

Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by vonklaus »

Dachande663 wrote: post #7

WordPress is like the Kalashnikov of the web. You can use it for pretty much anything, run it anywhere, do god knows what to it and it'll still happy hum along (albeit behind a very big varnish cache). A few of our clients have millions of pageviews running off of a couple t2.small instances and the single biggest factor for them is the UI and the security of knowing they're not tied into a bespoke platform.

wordpress, and a t2.micro can handle >1 million pageviews?

Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by brianwawok »

vonklaus wrote: post #43
Dachande663 wrote: post #7

WordPress is like the Kalashnikov of the web. You can use it for pretty much anything, run it anywhere, do god knows what to it and it'll still happy hum along (albeit behind a very big varnish cache). A few of our clients have millions of pageviews running off of a couple t2.small instances and the single biggest factor for them is the UI and the security of knowing they're not tied into a bespoke platform.

wordpress, and a t2.micro can handle >1 million pageviews?

with a cache sure. static content is easy to serve.

Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by pavs »

vonklaus wrote: post #43
Dachande663 wrote: post #7

WordPress is like the Kalashnikov of the web. You can use it for pretty much anything, run it anywhere, do god knows what to it and it'll still happy hum along (albeit behind a very big varnish cache). A few of our clients have millions of pageviews running off of a couple t2.small instances and the single biggest factor for them is the UI and the security of knowing they're not tied into a bespoke platform.

wordpress, and a t2.micro can handle >1 million pageviews?

nginx + varnish + cdn + pagespeed + php-apc. Most definately possible and you will still have 400+mb memory to spare on a 1gb server, avg cpu usage is at 30-40%. Done it for few clients myself.

Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by mahouse »

mschuster91 wrote: post #13
mrfijal wrote: post #3

i kind of wonder how did we get to this point. technologically speaking it's a disaster - terrible slow and insecure language as a platform for bad practices and codr base. i guess the answer is that technical excellence.is absolutely secondary to other concerns, but it's a concerning view.

There may be other technical solutions that are better from a technology POV. What WP did right is to choose a platform supported EVERYWHERE (PHP, and not Ruby, Java or other crap only supported by few hosters), with a shitload of developers (again, the massive advantage of PHP), and packed the installation process in a way everyone from an 8-year old school kid to a 70-year old grandpa can handle (and literally, I h…

>Also add in that wordpress.com's free hosting platform... well... surpasses any other blog solution by far.

Are you sure? To me, it's by far the slowest one of them all.

Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by jjoe »

Dachande663 wrote: post #7

WordPress is like the Kalashnikov of the web. You can use it for pretty much anything, run it anywhere, do god knows what to it and it'll still happy hum along (albeit behind a very big varnish cache). A few of our clients have millions of pageviews running off of a couple t2.small instances and the single biggest factor for them is the UI and the security of knowing they're not tied into a bespoke platform.

We have clients running multisite with 150MM+ page views per month but on dedicated hardware and Varnish running in front of it. The latter is a must in a setup like this. You save on MRC for server rentals, which is a huge value proposition.

Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by nogridbag »

I recently looked at Hugo[1] as a WP alternative and have been very impressed. It's a static website generator written in Go and features its own server with live-reload so you can see changes to your content instantly in the browser. I was looking for something that a non-techie might be able to maintain and since Hugo offers prebuilt binaries the only requirements for the maintainer is to drop hugo.exe into the working directory and type a few commands. In the end though, it's still a bit more complicated for non-techies than maintaining a website created via WordPress.

[1] https://gohugo.io

Re: WordPress now runs a quarter of the web

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Post by audessuscest »

netaustin wrote: post #25

I agree entirely with the premise that WordPress is not the most impressive codebase in the world — but that's not why people select it. The reason that sites opt to use WordPress is that the editorial interface is familiar and the plugin ecosystem is very robust. The reason that sites stay on WordPress is that upgrades arrive for free every couple of months and do not break backwards compatibility. WordPress's perfo…

> the plugin ecosystem is very robust

It's not true, a lot of WP plugins are buggy and sometimes conflict each other.

> upgrades arrive for free every couple of months and do not break backwards compatibility

But sometimes plugins break with upgrades

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