Launching WordPress into the Google cloud
By Artem Livshits,
CEO of OblakSoft
This guest post was written by Artem Livshits, CEO of OblakSoft, which makes the ClouSE MySQL storage
engine for cloud development. In this post, Artem describes his experience using Google Cloud
Storage to store and serve a WordPress blog.
WordPress is popular blogging software used by
over 60 million people. If you have a WordPress blog, you want to ensure that your server load
is manageable and that your load times are fast. You also want your data to be protected in
case your server fails. With that in mind, we at OblakSoft created the Cloud Storage Engine
for MySQL (ClouSE). It stores all your WordPress data on
Google Cloud Storage,
taking the load off your server to improve reliability and speed, and to reduce hosting
costs.
We’ve been very impressed with the performance of Google Cloud Storage. Because it’s built on
Google’s infrastructure, storage objects are cached within Google’s global network and
distributed globally without the need for a Content Distribution Network (CDN). This ensures
content is delivered with the best possible performance.
Here is a high-level architectural diagram of a WordPress-powered website that uses Google
Cloud Storage to store and serve content:
The website’s content management is done through WordPress, which uses a MySQL server to store
the website’s data. It uses the
WP2Cloud
WordPress plugin we created to upload pictures (and other media files) to Google Cloud
Storage. ClouSE makes the web server stateless by storing all data in Google Cloud Storage
using the
Google Cloud Storage
API. Web pages (lightweight HTML) are served by WordPress, while media files are
served by Google Cloud Storage directly.
WordPress is one example of a MySQL-based application that can take full advantage of Google
Cloud Storage to:
- Keep the data highly available and highly durable.
- Serve media files in a highly scalable fashion.
- Distribute media files across the globe for fast access.
This solution works with any hosting provider, so our users can keep their current
hosting arrangement, and move their data to Google Cloud Storage using WP2Cloud and ClouSE.
Users who are limited preview customers of Google Compute Engine can get started immediately
using a fully configured WordPress image that we created.
We’re very excited about the potential of the Google Cloud Platform to power dynamic web
server applications.
Launch your own
WordPress site in the cloud today - it’s easy and there’s minimal setup. We found it
easy to make ClouSe work with Google Cloud Storage, and you can see how you can
integrate Google Cloud Storage into
your app as well.
Artem Livshits is the Founder, CEO and software architect at OblakSoft, a company
focusing on technologies that simplify adoption of cloud computing. Previously Artem led the
development of several server products from inception to maturity during his 12 years at
Microsoft, including the source control system managing most of the Microsoft code
base.
Posted by Scott Knaster,
Editor
