Arstechnica runs on WordPress on AWS, and they have a really nice series of articles about it. Sure, you could use just one EC2 instance for everything, but on a high traffic website you would need a bit more.
There’s a big chunk of sites that have WP running but are mostly just static content, confusingly. If you update the content once a month and disable all comments, maybe another tool could fit better there. ¯*(ツ)*/¯
I thought the same thing and tried to do a static site generator for a while, but I just liked the WordPress UI too much for composing and editing vs manually placing my images in an assets folder and remembering the file names to add them in my markdown.
Besides, with a good caching solution, isn’t WordPress effectively a static site with extra steps for many use cases?
I’ve definitely used WP in that manner as well. At that time there were plugins that would render the pages out to static HTML in object storage. I’m sure there still are, but possibly not the same ones I used.
I just prefer not to use or manage WP whenever possible.
Been out of the game a long time. Is Wordpress still used heavily or are people shifting to other platforms? For all the easy power it had, it always required convincing to do what it wasn’t originally intended to do. Dunno if that’s still the case but seems it.
I had the same impression until recently. It’s now evolved into a high end, professional content management system and a ton of very high traffic sites use it. Wired runs on WordPress. Here are some other sites
Autoscaling isn’t only used the grow the number of servers under load, but also to guarantee availability of a fixed number. If the max is set to 1, the bastion host is protected against hardware failure, zone outages, or just you screwing up. Accidentally killed your bastion host? No problem, within a few minutes autoscaling will have provisioned a new one and you’re good to go again.
The good news is, based on the diagram looking like it’s straight from AWS docs, there’s a Cloud formation template for all that.
Bad news, good luck troubleshooting any of it if something breaks
As fellow german I luckily have an answer for smaller projects, where my non-techy mother-in-law hosts her own business wordpress since years without any issues. It’s just a simple webhoster with ssh-login.
I’ve been with digital ocean for more years than I can remember. I love Digital Ocean. Their core product is great, great UI, API, and their new products have been great as well. I’m using their K8s managed install for a year or so now on a product with no issues.
I believe they have 1 click installs for Wordpresss.
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I adore DO. They offer so many good products beyond VMs these days. Their K8s is cheap and their AppEngine stuff is like baby FarGate, sort of. They even offer server less as well. S3, RDS, NLBs, it’s all there 😎
I’m a huge fan of Fly.io. I deal with Kubernetes on AWS all day at work; Fly gives me the power of Kubernetes without the configuration hell that comes along with it. I just Dockerize my app and push it up.
Huge bonus points for multi-region support and Anycast IP addresses too. And they support IPv6 which is always a dealbreaker for me.
While true, businesses have it even harder to migrate to Linux (what else is there when talking enshittification?) than private users. Windows and dotnet won't go anywhere anytime soon.
Huh? With each passing day Windows is being relied on less and less. Microsoft would have to rewrite from scratch at this point (or stop backward compatibility) if their goal is a secure, dependable OS.
On their desktops, sure. But most apps are web based and back end apps are all services - running on Linux. I worked at a fortune 100 financial firm a couple years back. Hundreds of .NET apps, all running in Linux containers on Amazon ECS clusters or Lambdas.
No, as other’s have pointed out it’s not. There are plenty of other areas to use it, even in other game engines. OP is just trying to make it seem funny by making the exaggerated narrative that it’s the only use case for C#. If Boo was still around in Unity this joke would been accurate with that, don’t think that was used anywhere else
My old boss loved VB.Net. I still remember a time when I helped him out by solving mysterious bug for him.
He used to have this class he copied about to do database stuff. Not the worst thing of itself, but it was oddly specific in some ways for reused code. E.g. It had a function that took an enum value and returned connection string. And of course what options were in the enum varied.
So I come in one day and two other devs are already peering over his shoulder trying to help. The program is crashing when it tries to connect to the database and they can see for some reason the connection string is a single letter. I ask to see the function that is getting the connection string and see he’s removed the parameter, but the compiler didn’t pick up on it because:
VB.net lets you call functions that have no parameters without parentheses
VB.net is type lax, so an enum can be treated as an integer without casting
VB.net uses parentheses for array indexation as well as method invokation
.Net strings can be indexed like an array of characters
VB has no character type so VB.net treat characters as 1-length strings
So instead of passing an enum to a function, it was calling the function with no parameter, then using the enum value to index the returned string into a single character, which was then treated as a string and passed to the SqlClient constructor.
Unreal, Unity’s primary competitor, doesn’t. Mainstream gamers seem to only know about the two. Anyway, it’s a meme. I use C# for exclusively boring corporate stuff, and will continue.
I doubt they went away from VBA. While I do use C# any time I can, I can't say the same thing for Excel. I do know there are ways to do interop, and it's not great. Office file formats and interop have always been... awful.
You can access the Excel scripting engine from C#, but this is more of a case of C# supporting Excel than the other way around. (And you will really not want to do it if you just have to read and save data in excel files.)
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