@black3dynamite said in If Not WordPress, What's the Alternative:

@scottalanmiller said in If Not WordPress, What's the Alternative:

@360col said in If Not WordPress, What's the Alternative:

Well if the site is not complex then something like Grav these days is much better IMHO

I've been eyeing Grav for a while. It does look very interesting. ANy guesses as to pros and cons vs. WordPress? Beyond the obvious flat file vs database differences...

Ever since discovering Wiki.js, I like the idea of using git for versioning backups and deployments.
https://github.com/trilbymedia/grav-plugin-git-sync

You can automate backups of the MariaDB, though. Not all that much different. Lighter, on big loads. GIT is actually a very heavy process. Great for tiny things, but bad for big ones.

@dafyre said in Drupalgeddon2 Kicks Off:

@dbeato said in Drupalgeddon2 Kicks Off:

@dafyre said in Drupalgeddon2 Kicks Off:

Has everybody else already patched their Drupal setups?

Well, a new customer we needed to patch it 😞

Hopefully it has been patched before they got pwned.

Yeah hopefully .

@wirestyle22 said in Web Hosting Options:

@scottalanmiller said in Web Hosting Options:

A Small Orange uses cPanel and has been very good.

I love a small orange. Have never had a bad experience with them.

It's been great here.

So hit a roadblock about code deploy. This was taken considering we update the files. Later realized that we might have user generated content/content added by admin via the Drupal CMS backened. In that case those files for example images will be saved on the one particular EC2 and during a scale down the instance could go down, or may not be available in the newly booted up instance.

Luckily Amazon have another service called Elastic File System used for such cases! I now moved the sites folder of drupal to EFS.

So basic Drupal core files on the EC2 AMI image i created, plus sites folder on EFS, with auto enabling that on each loaded instance by adding the below script:

#cloud-config package_upgrade: true packages: - nfs-utils runcmd: - mkdir -p /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - chown ec2-user:ec2-user /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - echo "$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone).file-system-id.efs.aws-region.amazonaws.com:/ /var/www/html/efs-mount-point nfs4 nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 0 0" >> /etc/fstab - mount -a -t nfs4

I am hoping to do a video tutorial this weekend about the whole setup

I'm surprised they're on 8. It's a really big change from 7.

I use Pantheon for all of my site building and I have two sites hosted there. It's a great service.