Title: Hosting Meeting Notes: May 9nd, 2018 Author: Jadon N Published: 2018-05-11 Last modified: 2023-03-16 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jadonn/) [Jadon N](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jadonn/) 17:37 _on_ 2018-05-11 Tags: [Meetings ( 241 )](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/meetings/), [Meta ( 2 )](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/meta/), [Summary ( 105 )](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/summary/), [Weekly Hosting Chat ( 241 )](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/weekly-hosting-chat/) # Hosting Meeting Notes: May 9nd, 2018 Here’s the summary of our meeting [#hosting-community](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/hosting-community/) on [Wednesday, May 9nd, 2018 at 1700 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180509T1700)( [Slack archive](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C3D6T7F8Q/p1524675727000365)). Attendees: [@mikeschroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeschroder/) [@andrewtaylor-1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewtaylor-1/) [@jadonn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jadonn/) [@dhsean](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhsean/) [@pdclark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pdclark/) [@danielbachhuber](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/) ## HostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Best Practices Documentation * [@andrewtaylor-1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewtaylor-1/) merged the  [Security pull request](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/pull/28) and the [Reliability pull request](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/pull/27) with the master branch of the [documentation on GitHub](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation). - [@andrewtaylor-1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewtaylor-1/) mentioned that [@aaroncampbell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaroncampbell/) provided great feedback on the security section of the documentation (thank you!). * [@andrewtaylor-1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewtaylor-1/) said he would work on merging the documentation on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the‘ pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. into the hosting handbook on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. [https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/). * This project still needs help with content for several topics: - Performance * [Fragment Caching](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/blob/master/performance/performance.md#fragment-caching) * [Content Distribution Network](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/blob/master/performance/performance.md#content-distribution-network-cdn) - Configuration * [Memory Limits](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/blob/master/performance/performance.md#memory-limits) * [File Upload Sizes](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/blob/master/performance/performance.md#file-upload-sizes) - DatabaseDatabase A database is an organized collection of data. Access to this data is usually provided by a "database management system" (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database. Because of the close relationship between them, the term "database" is often used casually to refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it. Engines * [MySQL](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/blob/master/performance/performance.md#mysql) * [MariaDB](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/blob/master/performance/performance.md#mariadb) * [Percona](https://github.com/ataylorme/WordPress-Hosting-Best-Practices-Documentation/blob/master/performance/performance.md#percona) * [@mikeschroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeschroder/) said he will contact the [#meta](https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/tag/meta/) team about making some of the collected PHPPHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. requirements more discoverable. - WordPress.org does not have detailed PHP requirements at the moment. - [@andrewtaylor-1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewtaylor-1/) thought the PHP extensions would be particularly useful information to list. * [@mikeschroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeschroder/) suggested having another collaboration day for filling out the remaining stubs and contributing to the documentation. - The team will be having another documentation collaboration day on [Friday, May 18th, 1700 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=17000521T0000) * Anyone interested in helping out with the Hosting Best Practices Documentation is welcome to join the [#hosting-community](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/hosting-community/) at the time the collaboration day is set to start. ## GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. 󠀁[https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/)󠁿 * [@pdclark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pdclark/) created a shared Etherpad for collaborating on an outline for Gutenberg support documentation for host support teams. - [Access the Slack Log for the URL to the Etherpad](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C3D6T7F8Q/p1525887947000251) * [@danielbachhuber](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/) is going to work on developing a [migration guide for Gutenberg](https://github.com/danielbachhuber/gutenberg-migration-guide) * [@danielbachhuber](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/) proposed having another collaboration session for the Gutenberg project - [@danielbachhuber](https://profiles.wordpress.org/danielbachhuber/), [@pdclark](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pdclark/), and [@jadonn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jadonn/) will meet on [Friday, May 11th, 2018, 2100 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180511T2100). * Others are welcome to join! - Anyone interested in collaborating is welcome to the join the [#hosting-community](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/hosting-community/) team at the time the collaboration session is set to start. ## Feedback Miss this week’s meeting and want to discuss the initiatives above? Spend some time in the comments and share your thoughts! ## Next Meeting The next meeting will be in [#hosting-community](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/hosting-community/) on [Wednesday, May 16th, 2018, 1700 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180516T1700). Hope to see you then! 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