Cluster Fudge - WordCamp Austin 2014

Cluster Fudge: Recipes for WordPress in the Cloud (WordCamp Austin 2014)

About a month ago, I gave a talk at WordCamp Austin 2014 about running enterprise-class WordPress in clustered, cloud-hosted environments. Thanks to all who attended, and for your great questions! While it was standing room only for “Cluster Fudge: Recipes for WordPress in the Cloud”, I hope that everyone who wanted to get in was able to see my presentation.

I’d love to keep the discussion going, so feel free to offer your own best practices and tips for success in running WordPress in the cloud at scale! You can leave comments at the bottom of the page.

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Yesterday, many Google Webmaster Tools users received unpleasant notifications that their websites were suddenly inaccessible to Google.  After 2 hours of aggressive troubleshooting last night, and another couple hours spent this morning, it seems that this may be an issue on Google’s side.  Search Engine Roundtable just posted an article confirming more reports of problems […]

Apache HTTP Won’t Start Because Port 80 is Being Used?

Try uninstalling Web Deploy 2.0.  I’ve had IIS and Apache running smoothly for months on a new machine, and suddenly after installing SQL Server 2008 R2 and some Silverlight (yuck) tools to maintain an existing app, Apache reported that port 80 was already taken by “Microsoft HTTPAPI/2.0”.  I think it snuck in, along with an unwanted […]