Wordpress on Heroku

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by mhoofman • 15 years ago

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bjelkeman-again• 15 years ago

It would be very interesting to see how something like this compares to running Wordpress at http://wpengine.com

flog2• 15 years ago

Well for one there's no MySQL hosting at Heroku. So unless you've got a server somewhere else this is a non-starter.

tekacs• 15 years ago

Heroku has addons (which are pretty fundamental to the system - even 'custom domains' is an addon, albeit first-party) which provide MySQL - it's even stated in the article...

nixarn• 15 years ago

wpengine sounds really expensive. $49/month for just 50k pageviews. My $39/month Linode setup handles a million page views with no sweat.

wyck2• 15 years ago

That is not a very good comparison, linode as you know does not provide the same feature set nor does it have WordPress devs on hand to help.

consultutah• 15 years ago

This is killer for small wordpress sites. You essentially get free custom domain hosting until it hits a traffic level where it needs something more significant, then you can re-evaluate your options.

ridruejo• 15 years ago

Not exactly the same, but you can use BitNami and the AWS free tier (disclaimer, I am a developer) to deploy Wordpress with one click

http://bitnami.org/stack/wordpress#cloudImage

orta• 15 years ago

This is cool, I'd wonder how many wordpress plugins are prepared to work with a read-only filesystem.

kowsik• 15 years ago

the cedar stack has a writeable file system, though no persistence across dyno recycles/restarts.

jackseviltwin• 15 years ago

On the Cedar stack, the slug is still read-only, but the ephemeral filesystem is writable. The slug is what gets deployed on each new dyno spawned. The ephemeral filesystem is the individual file system on each dyno. So a plugin like WP Super Cache would be able to write to the file system, but that cache would only exist for the individual dyno that wrote it.

sheff• 15 years ago

As Heroku has a Postgres backend, I imagine you could also install PG4WP (http://www.hawkix.net/tag/pg4wp/) which is a plugin to get Wordpress working with Postgres DBs, and just deploy directly using Heroku alone.

You may run into problems with any other plugins which use MySQL specific SQL syntax though.

dugmartin• 15 years ago

You could also use git-svn to checkout the latest release branch:

http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.2.1

and then deploy to Heroku directly using git.

wyck2• 15 years ago

One of WordPress's devs maintains a WordPress github updated every 30 minutes, so even easier.

https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress

rograndom• 15 years ago

Plugins and themes cannot currently be installed through /wp-admin due to the PHP not having a zlib extension. Installation via git works fine though.

ashleyw• 15 years ago

With Heroku you can only write to /tmp from your app.

xdite• 15 years ago

http://evening-beach-7140.herokuapp.com/ # This is my install steps ( Install Wordpress on Heroku )

mnml_• 15 years ago

This is great but, whats the best way to store attachments ?

lootabooga2• 15 years ago

You could use a WP plugin that stores them on Amazon S3. It's not free, but it's like < $1 month for normal blog needs.

picardo• 15 years ago

The only plugin available explicitly states (on the Settings page, after you install and avtiavate it) that it doesn't upload directly to S3. It has to upload to your server first.

edit: actually, I think the upload to S3 button is different from upload media button. That's why I didn't see it.

aymeric• 15 years ago

You guys seem to ignore the fact the Mysql addon costs $70/month on Heroku.

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