Scaling WordPress: Capacity Planning

One of the crucial steps in hosting WordPress on scalable infrastructure is picking the right type of VMs. Cloud providers don’t make this task easy. Take AWS, for example. AWS EC2 has 277 different instance types. Azure and Google Cloud are not far behind...

Scaling WordPress: Using Docker in Production

While containers and jails have existed for decades, Docker brought them to the mainstream with better tooling and improved developer experience. Containers are a great way to ensure your applications run in the same environment no matter where they are hosted. ...

How to Find Post ID in WordPress

When using WordPress, there may be a time when a plugin will ask you for a post ID. How do you find post ID in WordPress (WP)? The post ID is not something that everyone will need to know, however you might need to know where to find the post ID if a plugin asks for...