WordPress: A surprisingly viable enterprise cloud option

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Nick Hardiman.

WordPress is a popular CMS written in PHP that powers websites around the world. The factory settings for WordPress provide a blogging site aimed at individuals. With some work, WordPress can be configured for many uses, from intranet to e-commerce. It’s meant for B2C transactions — that is, websites used by people. WordPress is not used for B2B web service work like behind-the-scenes information exchange.

WordPress isn’t enterprise-friendly out of the box. It requires plenty of architecture work, adding plug-in extensions and theme work to match it to business needs. WordPress isn’t the most developer-friendly either, although how a developer defines "friendly" has more in common with religious belief than with social comparison. Should WordPress be taken seriously for use in the enterprise? How well does it work in an enterprise cloud computing environment?…

Small-scale WordPress

If you are new to WordPress, you can start small with one virtual machine (VM) or shared hosting. In the old hosting days, the basic unit was a slice of a web server, and this type of hosting is still around. DreamHost has been supporting WordPress shared hosting for many years. The basic computing unit in cloud IT is the VM. Managing a VM requires some DIY work, so that keeps the IT department out of trouble. DigitalOcean offers a one-click install for WordPress on a DigitalOcean droplet. Amazon provides a guide to building WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Internap describes its favourite software stack for WordPress…

Read more from the source @ http://www.techrepublic.com/article/wordpress-a-surprisingly-viable-enterprise-cloud-option/

Subscribe to the CloudCow bi-monthly newsletter @ http://eepurl.com/smZeb