Stop deploying WordPress plugins by hand and use CircleCI instead
I was working on a small security plugin a while back and decided to get it onto the official WordPress directory. But then I remembered…
Tag: CDN
Serverless vs traditional WordPress hosting for traffic spikes
A client’s WooCommerce store kept crashing every Black Friday on a pricey managed server. Serverless hosting runs each request on its own short-lived instance, so a traffic surge scales instead of hitting a single box’s limits.
A better way to write WP-CLI commands
I took over a project once where the deployment checklist was a mile long. Clear this cache, sync that data, run this report. All manual….
How serverless fixes a core WordPress security flaw
I had a client come to me, completely at their wit’s end. Their site had been hacked for the third time in a month. They’d…
What’s the Real AWS Lambda Hosting Cost? It’s Complicated.
I got a call from a new client a while back. They had a small, but important, WordPress blog that another dev had put on…
How to set up WordPress page caching with a CDN
Notes from fixing a client’s slow store: how caching full pages at the CDN edge cuts origin load, when to bypass the cache, and how to avoid serving stale content.
Building a real CloudFront image optimization CDN
I got a call last month from a client running a fairly successful WooCommerce store. Everything was custom, looked great on paper, but their Google…