Amazon and Rackspace both provide virtualized servers billed per hour. That makes deploying scalable applications, especially with distributed key/value stores, very handy: You could launch new servers just as load, customer count or requests increase.
Today I’ve run the Redis benchmark on the SheevaPlug, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloudservers to see where a small Redis database will perform the best. Read more »
Following is my bash script for copying Wordpress blog files, such as downloads, images, attachments in general to CloudFront. Written with efficiency in mind it will actually synchronize files thus sparing you massive uploads and lets you use CloudFront as CDN.
CSS and JS files will be compressed before uploading, if necessary, and the appropriate headers will be set correctly. Read more »
A lot has been written about Wordpress tuning. Unfortunately utilizing CDNs with Wordpress is despite a few plugins still fiddly and requires modifications to themes, links and the such. Yet even a lot of plugins don’t correctly link to their JS files, resulting plugins such as My-CDN not being able to rewrite all links.
Therefore I have written a plugin to hook a rewriter into PHPs ob_start(). Without going further into technical detail, it lets you use a CDN for your Wordpress blog within minutes.
Download the “OSSDL CDN off-linker” here: Wordpress Plugin page.
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