Hi all --
My name is Jason Brooks and I work with Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. Paul Frields asked me to look into migrating Fedora Magazine to a WordPress instance on OSPO's WP Engine account.
I've set up an instance at https://fedoramag.wpengine.com and would appreciate your feedback. You can reach the wp console via https://fedoramag.wpengine.com/wp-admin.
Paul asked me about the schedule for WP Engine wordpress updates. Their update process is outlined at https://wpengine.com/support/wordpress-updates/, but the TLDR is that when a new Wordpress version is released, WP Engine tests the update and then pushes it out automatically, typically within a few weeks. They send out a notification of the pending updates, and you can opt to defer these updates, or to apply them more earlier. If a security update is released, they push it out right away, and without the option to defer. We host a few other sites on WPEngine, and the updates process has been smooth.
WPEngine does not update plugins automatically, although they just began a beta of a service that does handle this. I haven't tested that service yet.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
Regards, Jason
This is excellent news about the updates. It means our SEO engine plugin (which we use fairly religiously) should just keep working. It only supports two most recent stable versions of WordPress, which is why it was a concern. And not having to SSH into a host to update our plugins is also great.
Jason, do you know whether we have access to do some sort of site backup or snapshot (complete with database content) before we do updates, in case of a problem?
Paul
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:30 PM Jason Brooks jbrooks@redhat.com wrote:
Hi all --
My name is Jason Brooks and I work with Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. Paul Frields asked me to look into migrating Fedora Magazine to a WordPress instance on OSPO's WP Engine account.
I've set up an instance at https://fedoramag.wpengine.com and would appreciate your feedback. You can reach the wp console via https://fedoramag.wpengine.com/wp-admin.
Paul asked me about the schedule for WP Engine wordpress updates. Their update process is outlined at https://wpengine.com/support/wordpress-updates/, but the TLDR is that when a new Wordpress version is released, WP Engine tests the update and then pushes it out automatically, typically within a few weeks. They send out a notification of the pending updates, and you can opt to defer these updates, or to apply them more earlier. If a security update is released, they push it out right away, and without the option to defer. We host a few other sites on WPEngine, and the updates process has been smooth.
WPEngine does not update plugins automatically, although they just began a beta of a service that does handle this. I haven't tested that service yet.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
Regards, Jason _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraproject.o...
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:35 AM Paul Frields stickster@gmail.com wrote:
This is excellent news about the updates. It means our SEO engine plugin (which we use fairly religiously) should just keep working. It only supports two most recent stable versions of WordPress, which is why it was a concern. And not having to SSH into a host to update our plugins is also great.
Jason, do you know whether we have access to do some sort of site backup or snapshot (complete with database content) before we do updates, in case of a problem?
There are daily snapshots, and you can take manual snapshots as well.
I've cc'ed Misc, who can help getting the host name pointed in the right direction, whether by adjusting DNS or proxy -- he has some Q's about how you'd like to proceed on that -- can we connect him w/ someone to discuss that?
Jason
Paul
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:30 PM Jason Brooks jbrooks@redhat.com wrote:
Hi all --
My name is Jason Brooks and I work with Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. Paul Frields asked me to look into migrating Fedora Magazine to a WordPress instance on OSPO's WP Engine account.
I've set up an instance at https://fedoramag.wpengine.com and would appreciate your feedback. You can reach the wp console via https://fedoramag.wpengine.com/wp-admin.
Paul asked me about the schedule for WP Engine wordpress updates. Their update process is outlined at https://wpengine.com/support/wordpress-updates/, but the TLDR is that when a new Wordpress version is released, WP Engine tests the update and then pushes it out automatically, typically within a few weeks. They send out a notification of the pending updates, and you can opt to defer these updates, or to apply them more earlier. If a security update is released, they push it out right away, and without the option to defer. We host a few other sites on WPEngine, and the updates process has been smooth.
WPEngine does not update plugins automatically, although they just began a beta of a service that does handle this. I haven't tested that service yet.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
Regards, Jason _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraproject.o...
Misc and I were talking about this earlier in the IRC channel. I have strong feelings *only* about the end state, which is that (1) when someone types fedoramagazine.org into their browser, they should end up at the same site they're used to, and (2) the browser bar should still reflect that hostname. IOW, the end-user/reader doesn't see any change.
Ideally, we contributors would also continue to go to the same place. But that's a softer requirement. If we have to start going to a new site URL to write, edit, and publish articles, it's not a deal breaker at all.
Paul
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:21 PM Jason Brooks jbrooks@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:35 AM Paul Frields stickster@gmail.com wrote:
This is excellent news about the updates. It means our SEO engine plugin (which we use fairly religiously) should just keep working. It only supports two most recent stable versions of WordPress, which is why it was a concern. And not having to SSH into a host to update our plugins is also great.
Jason, do you know whether we have access to do some sort of site backup or snapshot (complete with database content) before we do updates, in case of a problem?
There are daily snapshots, and you can take manual snapshots as well.
I've cc'ed Misc, who can help getting the host name pointed in the right direction, whether by adjusting DNS or proxy -- he has some Q's about how you'd like to proceed on that -- can we connect him w/ someone to discuss that?
Jason
Paul
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:30 PM Jason Brooks jbrooks@redhat.com wrote:
Hi all --
My name is Jason Brooks and I work with Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. Paul Frields asked me to look into migrating Fedora Magazine to a WordPress instance on OSPO's WP Engine account.
I've set up an instance at https://fedoramag.wpengine.com and would appreciate your feedback. You can reach the wp console via https://fedoramag.wpengine.com/wp-admin.
Paul asked me about the schedule for WP Engine wordpress updates. Their update process is outlined at https://wpengine.com/support/wordpress-updates/, but the TLDR is that when a new Wordpress version is released, WP Engine tests the update and then pushes it out automatically, typically within a few weeks. They send out a notification of the pending updates, and you can opt to defer these updates, or to apply them more earlier. If a security update is released, they push it out right away, and without the option to defer. We host a few other sites on WPEngine, and the updates process has been smooth.
WPEngine does not update plugins automatically, although they just began a beta of a service that does handle this. I haven't tested that service yet.
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
Regards, Jason _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraproject.o...
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