Highly available WordPress deployment on Azure
WordPress is the leading content management system today owning more than 50% of the market share. WordPress on Microsoft Azure is becoming a very popular offering with the ability to host WordPress as an Azure WebApp. While Microsoft has made the process of spinning up a WordPress site very easy with built in gallery images, running business critical applications on a cloud platform also introduces challenges in terms on availability and scalability.
WordPress Architecture
A typical WordPress deployment consists of the following two tiers:
- Web Frontend – PHP web site
- Backend Data store
- Relational data store – Hierarchical entity store
- Object data store – Used to store uploaded images and other artefacts
In order to guarantee high availability and scalability, we need to ensure that each of these service tiers are decoupled and can be separately managed.… [Keep reading] “Highly available WordPress deployment on Azure”