I know this is a little outside the normal scope of CSS-Tricks stuff, but I find the whole concept of spot instances fascinating. Here’s the gist from a very-non-expert (me). You can just buy and pay for web servers, for example, Amazon EC2. You can save a bunch of money if you buy them as “reserved instances” meaning you agree ahead of time you’ll need it for a long time (like a year) and prepay some or all of … Read article “Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS”
A Beginner’s Journey to Launching a Website
In September 2018, I was just a few months into my journey of learning web development. As I’m sure is the case with many new developers, it was a big task for me to learn not only the basic skills required, but also keeping current with the fast-moving industry. Just as I was getting to the level where it felt as though I could build a simple website, I started to realize that it was only the first step.
Opening … Read article “A Beginner’s Journey to Launching a Website”
CSS-Tricks on Flywheel
I first heard of Flywheel through their product Local, which is a native app for working on WordPress sites. If you ask around for what people use for that kind of work, you’ll get all sorts of answers, but an awful lot of very strong recommendations for Local. I’ve become one of them! We ultimately did a sponsored post for Local, but that’s based on the fact that now 100% of my local WordPress development work is done using … Read article “CSS-Tricks on Flywheel”
Self-Host Your Static Assets
Robin Rendle
Harry Roberts digs into why hosting assets on someone else’s servers (including CDNs) is not such a great idea if we want our websites to be lightning fast.
Harry writes:
… Read article “Self-Host Your Static Assets”One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure.
Netlify
It’s always fun to watch developers discover Netlify for the first time. It’s so easy. One way to do it is to just literally drag and drop a folder onto them and it will be online. Even better, connect a Git repo to a Netlify site and tell it what branch you want to watch, then any commits to that branch will automatically go live, even running your site’s build as it does it. I heard one developer say, “It’s … Read article “Netlify”
Helping a Beginner Understand Getting a Website Live
I got a great email from a fellow named Josh Long the other day. He is, in his words, “relatively new to web design” and was a bit stuck on the concept of getting a site live. I should say that I’m happy to get emails like this an I always read them, but I typically can’t offer tech support over email. If I can respond at all, I normally point people to other community resources.
In this … Read article “Helping a Beginner Understand Getting a Website Live”
Going From Dumb Little Idea to Real Website in Like 10 Minutes
I live in Bend, Oregon. I woke up with the dumbest idea ever that there should be a little food truck map website and it should be called Vend, Oregon. It’s not my finest idea, but hey, I’m full of those. Fortunately, we don’t have to spend all day on this.… Read article “Going From Dumb Little Idea to Real Website in Like 10 Minutes”
Sponsor: Enterprise WordPress on Media Temple
Media Temple is the host we both use and recommend here on CSS-Tricks.
Hot off the presses: Media Temple has launched Enterprise WordPress Hosting. This is for large-scale WordPress sites that need the scaling and high-availability of AWS, all managed by the crack engineers at Media Temple.
A little behind the scenes: everything is built on Docker containers. When a high traffic event happens that requires scaling up, that happens in seconds. Media is uploaded and stored on S3, … Read article “Sponsor: Enterprise WordPress on Media Temple”
