[Cialug] Best practices for isolating Wordpress sites

[Matthew Nuzum]

I found a pretty good tutorial with similar goals for what I want here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-host-multiple-websites-securely-with-nginx-and-php-fpm-on-ubuntu-14-04
(I'll also explore using Apache as well)

I'm really curious to know how many light-duty sites can run on a 512mb -
1gb server.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'll be working
on it this weekend.


On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> 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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