WordCamp Birmingham

written by Hart Hoover at Rackspace

Our customers come to us with all kinds of applications, from CMSs like Drupal and Joomla to eCommerce applications like Magento and everything in between. I’d like to discuss one of the most popular applications we encounter, WordPress, and how the Managed Cloud team recommends deploying it at Rackspace. The end result is a WordPress site that uses Cloud Load Balancers, Cloud Servers, and Cloud Files to deliver an easily scalable, modular configuration.

For the purpose of this post, we will assume you have a domain for the site, the Cloud Servers will be CentOS 5 LAMP images with a Managed Service Level, and the web servers are configured with Postfix and SendGrid.

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ZippyKid is a managed WordPress Hosting company, the fastest WordPress Host ever. We live, eat, & breathe WordPress which means we do WordPress so much better.

ZippyKid offers reliable, secure and cost effective web hosting solutions that keep your website up and running. Content Delivery Network (CDN) is included on all plans, this means content is served from servers closest to your visitors. Partnering with Rackspace, our networks & servers, along with the top 5,000 sites in the world, are located in enterprise class data centers. This give us the ability to offer you high network connectivity and security you need to ensure you your website is always accessible to your users.

We’re so happy to have Sucuri Security as one of our sponsors!

Sucuri Security is the leading provider of web-based integrity monitoring, malware detection and cleanup solutions – delivered as a service. Sucuri solutions are deployed remotely in a matter of minutes anywhere in the world, allowing our customers to immediately detect and remove web-based malware and monitor their internet presence. Sucuri’s web monitoring solution is used today by more than 30,000 sites worldwide.

In simple terms, we clean up the mess. If your site gets hacked, blacklisted or infected with malware, we fix it for you. If your site is clean, we monitor it to let you know if a problem ever happens. We work fast, we’re affordable, and we get things done. Just ask any of our previous clients.

You can also follow our blog to read about our research, and where our solutions are being used in the “wild”.

ManageWP, which is one of our fantastic WordPress Birmingham sponsors, is a first-of-its-kind service that enables you to easily Manage, Monitor, Backup, Deploy, Publish, and Secure all of your WordPress sites, while saving you both time and money. It takes the focus off of managing and maintaining your WordPress sites, and puts the emphasis back on what matters most: your content, your readers, and your customers.

Bloggers, Web hosts and developers, dedicated marketers, media entities, and security-aware corporations will love what it has to offer. For bloggers, time spent managing multiple WordPress can be put into creating content. For web hosts and developers, the powerful cloning and migration tools provide intuitive and cost-effective deployment options. For marketers, the integrated SEO and keyword tools will give you a leg-up over the competition. And for media entities and corporations, the ability to manage hundreds of thousands of blogs will change everything.

ManageWP is perfect for

• giving you a birds-eye view of all the activity with your WordPress sites,
• enabling one-click access to all of your WordPress sites,
• automating and scheduling your WordPress backups
• providing powerful migration and cloning tools for quick deployment
• helping you to create and distribute content for all of your WordPress sites,
• and monitoring SEO activity and keywords, all without breaking the bank.

If you’d like to see how ManageWP will revolutionize your WordPress experience, get started for free, and enjoy an incredible 30% life-time discount before their official launch in early January!