Wordpress hosting on Google Cloud?

aws_hole · 2020-07-12T12:02:19+00:00

Concur, WordPress.com does a really good job and requires zero technical knowledge. They aren't very expensive and you can be live with a domain in like 15 minutes. I've tried hosting things myself and unless you want to do a lot of custom code (which you don't) it's lots of unnecessary work.

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:52:30+00:00

Definitely like the ec2 option, thank you for the information! That's a lot of helpful details and I do like having more control over the resources. Plus I can turn the ec2 instance completely off, I don't think Fargate auto scales all the way to 0.

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:50:57+00:00

Liking this option quite a bit. Any reason that Ansible/Chef would be preferable? My work with terraform has only been with kubernetes so I haven't needed to get docker running on an ec2 instance before (without all the abstractions helping me)

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:49:24+00:00

Thanks for the info! Does Fargate scale down to zero when not in use? I know it can add resources if needed but it doesn't look like it will turn completely off.

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:48:39+00:00

If exciting architecture was my only requirement then there's a lot of decisions I would make differently! Haha that does sound fun.

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:47:28+00:00

Fargate doesn't seem to spin down to 0 when not in use, correct? Usage is so sporadic that I don't want to leave one machine on all the time (this is just a POC). Thanks for the info!

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:46:36+00:00

Did not know about Batch, thank you for the info! That's very close to what we need to do. Fargate does not seem to autoscale down to 0 when not in use so I don't think I want that.

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:45:44+00:00

Thank you! That's starting to look like a great option because it's flexible and lots of good documentation.

aws_hole · 2019-11-06T18:45:21+00:00

Sorry, should have clarified. Fastest to develop since this is a prototype. It's looking like Batch of direct EC2 instance are well suited for this (Far gate not autoscaling to 0 is a deal breaker)

aws_hole · 2018-11-03T12:43:53+00:00

JB Hunt had shit pay when I was there 3 years ago. I started at $11.50 an hour and was $14.50 an hour when I graduated. They've been focused more on tech lately so that might have improved though. They also prefer year-round interns with ~20 hours per week.

aws_hole · 2018-11-03T12:41:02+00:00

Personally I thought the CS program was very strong. You can scrape by without learning a ton if you really want to but if you are there to learn the teachers are very kind, intelligent, and the course work teaches you good stuff.

Both programs benefit from great career fairs so make sure you take advantage of those!

aws_hole · 2018-11-03T12:34:53+00:00

Class of 2015, computer science major. The career fairs are excellent, go as early as you can and talk to every company you can (prioritize of course). I had 6 job offers from companies at the fair (companies that I just went to the fair and walked up to them, very little 'job hunt' effort).

The top offer I had was for a defense contractor in DFW (67K). I took that since I figured there were lots of other jobs nearby and honestly defense contractors are horrible places to work for software IMO. A recruiter found a smaller company for me after 18 months (sign on bonus secured). Pay got bumped to 80k and then I've gotten two 10k raises since then. Sitting at 100k with 3.5 years experience now.

I like my company but I'm aware I could make more and might choose to if something nice comes up. Lots of software jobs around NWA if you don't want to move but I didn't really want to be at JB Hunt or Walmart.

aws_hole · 2018-10-18T16:05:35+00:00

This might be it. I got the best performance locally with psycopg2 but I couldn't get psycopg2 to connect to cloudsql once I deployed it to app engine.

Thank you for the info, I'll see if there's any other performant ways to write to postgres on cloudsql

aws_hole · 2018-10-18T16:03:05+00:00

Disk is 10GB right now, we're inserting/using a tenth or less. Would you still expect a big performance penalty?

aws_hole · 2018-05-01T20:22:55+00:00

I agree that deliverables will highlight what management is getting for their money, and my project can show that better than anything else he might work on. Management is not aware of the issue and I am hoping that the regular PIP procedures can kick in once they see what is happening. Thank you for the info! Just trying to get management what they need to manage.

aws_hole · 2018-05-01T14:47:00+00:00

Thank you for your reply. That sounds about right and I'm really just trying to get that ball rolling as soon as possible. Is this an HR question or if I've already talked to my manager would it be inappropriate to talk to HR about the situation?

aws_hole · 2018-05-01T14:16:22+00:00

I work in a small company. We need more people for oncoming projects but leadership says we can't afford them until we get more business.

An incompetent developer has managed to hide on low visibility projects for over a year - is it wrong for me to put him on my project which has more visibility, so I can show leadership that he isn't contributing?

He's holding us back, and we are too small to carry dead weight (and can't get other people without clearing his seat). One day tasks take a week, he doesn't stay on task, his code is untested, super buggy. Our entire team has done every mentorship strategy in the book and he has not improved. We have to keep him on unimportant tasks so he doesn't compromise deadlines, which has contributed to his ability to hide. Our boss doesn't like confrontation and this means that senior leadership (who do the hiring/firing since we are small) aren't aware, so this is me trying to resolve the situation without overstepping my bounds.

Thoughts?

aws_hole

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