[Cialug] Best practices for isolating Wordpress sites

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Thu Oct 15 19:00:59 CDT 2015


I use standard VPS type servers, so I have full control. One concern I have is resource utilization. If I do containers, I’m essentially running an entire lamp stack for each website, right?
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> On Oct 15, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> 
> How much control over the virtual host do you have?  If you have full root
> control, I'd look into containerization (e.g. Docker).  That'll get you a
> lot more security (although not as much as full virtualization) without
> using up a lot more resources.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> 
>> I've been managing virtual hosting for quite a while. I'm teaching a class
>> on web development* and want to make it easy for the students to set up a
>> Wordpress site.
>> 
>> There are some nasty plugins and themes out there and of course newbies are
>> going to find them.
>> 
>> How do hosting companies isolate sites so that PHP files in one site can't
>> mess up files in another site? I've got a few ideas (starting with FastCGI)
>> but they get complicated as they make the jump from the brain to the
>> keyboard.
>> 
>> * I'll be running another class or two - one will be online in the
>> evenings, the other will be in-person. You can see details for the class
>> here
>> <
>> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-professional-web-development-html-wordpress-and-photoshop-tickets-18674915174?discount=webgeek
>>> .
>> E-mail me and I'll notify you when the next class runs.
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