https://luth.io/tags/deployment/ Recent content in Deployment on Luther Monson Hugo en Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:25:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/09/single-binary-wordpress/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:25:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/09/single-binary-wordpress/ <p>The standard way to run a WordPress site is four services:</p> <ul> <li>nginx for HTTP and TLS</li> <li>php-fpm to run PHP</li> <li>MySQL for data</li> <li>Redis, once the site gets slow enough that someone installs an object cache plugin</li> </ul> <p>That&rsquo;s four processes and four config files. There are three sockets between them and four things to upgrade. For a big site that&rsquo;s fine. For a brochure site or a staging copy it&rsquo;s absurd. The same goes for a PR preview, a box at the edge, or a CI job that needs a real WordPress to test a plugin against.</p>