Re: Warning for IBM i WordPress Users

I'll take issue with all but one of the points:

1) I was able to deploy wordpress inside Zend Server with a couple of button clicks and a small amount of information filled in. Almost the same with any other server.
2) The backplane on a POWER system is faster in total than 90% of the server boxes out there so a bandwidth limit is false, POWER provides as much or more bandwidth than any other server.
3) Firewall issues are no different for IBM i than any other system. Totally false statement.
4) There is some issue with the plug ins on IBM i but that should not in and of itself be a disqualifier for IBM i to host your WP system.
5) The integration effort with a CMS is no different with IBM i than any other box, in fact if it's all in one place it's easier

So in the end the only point with any minor significance is the plug in issue. One that could be solved and I prefer to not do automatic updates anyway.

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:48 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Warning for IBM i WordPress Users

Thanks for the reasons. I don't disagree with any of them depending on the scenario.

Some things to think about...

At some point IBM i shops have to get over the fear of opening a port on their firewall. Also, bandwidth shouldn't normally be an issue if the business chooses a right strategy for loading static resources (i.e. Amazon
S3 for images, PDFs, etc).

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Open Source and IBM i. No Limits.


On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron

for several reasons.

- with most hosting companies you are able to install WordPress or
other by pressing a botton.

- you get more bandwidth and are able to close down you IBM I for
maintenance or test.

- you have no problems with your firewalls

- any plugin will work

- you can easely integrate IBM I business pages into the CMS

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Aaron Bartell
<aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Maybe you could expound on your reasons instead of negatively
painting everyone with a broad brush?

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Open Source and IBM i. No Limits.


On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Personally I have never understood why people place their WP (or
other) homepage on their IBM I that basically is a Business
Application

Server.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Aaron Bartell
<aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem years ago.

http://blog.mowyourlawn.com/?p=580

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Open Source and IBM i. No Limits.


On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Jon Paris
<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

For some time now we have been wrestling with trying to find
out

why

our

WP site was automatically updating itself, but that all
plug-ins

failed

during the last step of the update for no obvious reason.

We have spent many hours and $s on this without resolution and
have

had

to

resort to manually updating the plug-ins.

Why am I mentioning this? Because after the last round of
updates a

number

of features on the site stopped working. Password resets, blog
post notifications, etc. It turns out that the WP update
process has

been

“lying” to us - the main wP software was no actually being
updated

it

just

said it was. As a result we appear to be in a situation where
the

plug-ins

are for a more recent version of WP than the one we were
actually

running!

The net appears to have been that various functions failed.

We have now manually updated the main WP software and most of
the

“broken”

functionality is working again - not all of it and we suspect
that

database

corruption during the mis-match period may have caused this -
we’re

still

working on it.

So - this is just a heads up to any of you using WP that you
may

not

be

as

up-to-date as you think! And that may lead to other problems later.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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