WordPress Hosting Live

The WordPress 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. Team held a series of remote live meetups that were focused on teaching concepts related to hosting and using WordPress

The WordPress Hosting Live meetups group can be found at Meetup, brought to you by the Make Hosting Team in collaboration with the Learn WordPress Team. You can find event archives on the YouTube channel and Twitter.

What is it?

The Hosting Live events project streamed events that allowed knowledgeable parties to direct the event as a host and offer a presentation on a particular WordPress hosting related topic, followed by discourse, questions, and answers. The events were streamed on YouTube live.

The topics

The subject of the web-hosting focused events were:

• ServerServer A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers. Environment (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., MySQLMySQL MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License., nginxNGINX nginx is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license.…)
• Web Performance (cachingCache A cache is a component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or a copy of data stored elsewhere., CDNCDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially relative to end users. CDNs have grown to serve a large portion of the Internet content today, including web objects (text, graphics and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social media sites., configuration…)
• Reliability (backupsBackup A backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. Backups can be used to recover data after its loss from data deletion or corruption, or to recover data from an earlier time. Backups provide a simple form of disaster recovery., monitoringMonitoring Website monitoring is the process of testing and verifying that end-users can interact with a website or web application as expected. Website monitoring is often used by businesses to ensure website uptime, performance, and functionality is as expected.…)
• Security (firewall, permissions, updates…)

Level of presentations

The talks were inclusive to users of any skill level. Some of the original ideas for presentations included titles like:

• WordPress and the new PHP version
• How we manage updates and maintenance
• Optimizing hosting for WordPress sites
• Complex and distributed WordPress installations

Languages

Although the main language used in the WordPress Community is English, and the main language of the presentations were also English, presentations in other languages were included, as goals of this initiative were to reach as many people as possible, regardless of where they are or what language they speak.

Presentations

As with any WordPress event, there are a number of limitations that apply across the board. These are included for the good of the global WordPress Community.

• The first slide must include the title of the presentation, the name of the speaker, and, if it is a derivative work, the original authors.
• The second slide must include a presentation card of the speaker(s). In this slide, the speaker can give credit to the company or business relationship sponsoring the contributor or speaker, including logos, social media, and other marketing materials of the speaker and their sponsorship.
• The rest of the slides may not include any mention or commercial logos. As a general rule, no hashtags or social network accounts may be included.
• The last slide can include a closing message (in Thank You! mode) as well as a link to the speaker’s personal website, personal email account, or personal social networks, in case anyone viewing the presentation wants to get in touch.
• The presentation must be under GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing. The GPL is a “copyleft” license. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples. or compatible licenses (EUPL, etc…).
• The Code of Conduct must be observed at all times.

Propose a talk

Although events are not currently taking place, if you want to host a talk or have an idea for a topic, feel free to get in touch through the following:

• WordPress Hosting Meetup
• Make Hosting
• #hosting channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..