Sail is a great and much more affordable alternative to traditional and managed WordPress hosting. It’s a free and open source CLI tool to provision and manage WordPress applications in the DigitalOcean cloud. Sail logo While the 1-click WordPress installer does the job for many DigitalOcean users, it’s very limited for power-users and developers. Sail CLI fills this gap, providing a...
Sail Premium is Here + Giveaway
Hey folks, hope you’re having a great 2022 so far! I’ve been working on some premium features for Sail CLI over the past few weeks and I would love for you to try them out.
Page Caching on the Filesystem
A few months ago I set out to build a page caching plugin for WordPress from scratch and streamed it live. The result was a simple filesystem-based advanced-cache.php implementation. It was nowhere near perfect, but it worked. It worked so well, that I decided to put some more effort into it, and I’m happy to report that it’s been running successfully on some production sites...
WordPress Performance Profiling with Sail CLI
Having to deal with performance problems on a WordPress site is never too pleasant, partly because the tooling is not great. Things like Query Monitor and the Debug Bar series of plugins can certainly help to some extent, but often times they’re not enough, because they do things in PHP, which is limited to, well… PHP. Moreover, when reporting on database queries or remote HTTP...
Video: Fast and reliable e-mail in WordPress with Sail
During this live stream I covered some of the wp_mail() things I wrote about earlier, and did some live performance testing with SMTP plugins, Mailgun, Postfix and more. Don’t forget to subscribe if you learned something new!
Configuring Mailgun for WordPress with Sail CLI
Mailgun is a robust e-mail delivery service with both API and SMTP support, and a generous trial of up to 5000 e-mails/mo for three months. Together with Mailgun, we’ve developed a couple of default blueprints for Sail to ease the configuration. mailgun-dns.yaml: this blueprint adds all necessary DNS records for mail delivery through Mailgun, as well as domain verification at Mailgunmailgun...
Fun with Blueprints in Sail CLI for WordPress
Blueprints allow Sail users to define an environment, where their WordPress applications will be provisioned. Currently blueprints support plugins (wp.org or custom), themes, options and wp-config.php constants. In future updates we’ll add support for Redis/Memcached setups, Mail, security (fail2ban, etc.) and much more. Possibly some DigitalOcean features too, like floating IPs and volumes...
I’m LIVE: An Introduction to Sail for WordPress
I’m LIVE on YouTube and Twitch right now, giving an introduction to the new Sail CLI tool I built, to provision, deploy and manage WordPress applications in the DigitalOcean cloud.
Come say hi on YouTube and Twitch.tv. Don’t forget to subscribe/follow!
Sail: Deploy WordPress to DigitalOcean
Sail is a free and open source CLI tool to provision and deploy WordPress applications to the DigitalOcean cloud. Here’s a quick video demo of how it works: I’m a DIY guy when it comes to WordPress hosting, so I like to get my hands dirty with servers, code, configuration and everything else. I’ve been using virtual servers at DigitalOcean for small WordPress projects for a very...