Is your development cycle scalable? Is it flexible? Is it reliable? Is it secure? Is it version-controlled? Are your deployments simple and automated? Do you have a staging server? If you do client work, are you earning the big bucks hosting sites? If you answered yes to all of these questions, move right along and keep being awesome. Otherwise, have I got a presentation for you!
In this talk, we’ll discuss scalable and inexpensive solutions for development, deployment, and hosting an unlimited number of sites with a team of any size. After going over the basics, we’ll setup a WordPress Multisite development environment, get it under version control using Git, setup a scalable hosting platform on Rackspace Cloud, and setup deployment routines using GitHub.
We’ll deal with some of the challenges, like file uploads and different wp-config.php files, and we’ll touch on some more advanced topics like staging servers, caching, domain mapping, and DNS. Best of all, this is so easy that we’ll do it all in real time. When we’re done, you’ll be armed with real world take-aways that you’ll be able to implement first thing Monday morning; not just fluffy idealistic concepts.
