WordPress high performance hosting

Date: Friday, July 14, 2017
Time: 3:00 - 3:45 pm (EDT) (UTC-04:00)
Location: Room 1053
Format: General Lecture Session

Session description

Get to know Guillaume before he presents. Learn how he got started building websites and why he enjoys working in higher education.

A case study of how the Harvard Chan School is leveraging Amazon Web Services to power a high performance, elastic and scalable hosting environment for 1900+ websites, on one WordPress Multisite installation. This session will introduce how the ever-growing panel of Amazon Web Services can be used to perform load balancing, auto-scaling, content delivery, caching, backups, continuous integration and monitoring for WordPress.

Presenter

Guillaume Molter

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Senior Web and Application Developer, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Guillaume is a senior web and application developer at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he manages 1900+ websites with a WordPress Multisite installation. He has been using WordPress as his CMS of choice for the past 7 years and has contributed to several plugins. He recently submitted his first patch to Core.

Sessions

  • General Lecture Session: WordPress high performance hosting

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