Comments on: Amazon S3 and CloudFront with WordPress and DreamHost http://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/ technology, innovation and media Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Load Wordpress FAST with Dreamhost, Amazon CloudFront and W3 Total Cache Plugin | Cats Web Weavehttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-21003 Load Wordpress FAST with Dreamhost, Amazon CloudFront and W3 Total Cache Plugin | Cats Web Weave Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:17:06 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-21003 [...] if your site takes more than a second to load!My Google searches for faster load times lead here: http://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/ – a blog post about using Amazon CloudFront with my web hosting company, Dreamhost to create [...] [...] if your site takes more than a second to load!My Google searches for faster load times lead here: http://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/ – a blog post about using Amazon CloudFront with my web hosting company, Dreamhost to create [...]

]]> By: Catherine Scholzhttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-21002 Catherine Scholz Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:12:48 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-21002 Mentioned your post here:http://www.catswebweave.com/load-wordpress-fast-with-dreamhost-amazon-cloudfront-and-w3total-cache-plugin/Blessings,WebWeaver Mentioned your post here:

http://www.catswebweave.com/load-wordpress-fast-with-dreamhost-amazon-cloudfront-and-w3total-cache-plugin/

Blessings,

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]]> By: larrehttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-17984 larre Sat, 15 May 2010 20:46:19 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-17984 Hi etzhaim, thanks for your comment!I have not having any problems with uploading the original file (size) to S3. This is done autmatically by the W3 Total Cache. If you look at my post: http://www.larre.com/2010/04/19/nypd-helicopter-on-top-of-empire-state-building/ you will see that all the photos has the original file uploaded (try to click one of the photos). What happens if you initiate a manual upload from the plugins settings page?I found the ACL a bit confusing. When I created a bucket trough Dreamhost the bucket did not have the correct ACL but as far as I can remember creating it through the clients I tested actually did.I have not found any settings on aws about auto-setting ACL´s. Hi etzhaim, thanks for your comment!

I have not having any problems with uploading the original file (size) to S3. This is done autmatically by the W3 Total Cache. If you look at my post: http://www.larre.com/2010/04/19/nypd-helicopter-on-top-of-empire-state-building/ you will see that all the photos has the original file uploaded (try to click one of the photos). What happens if you initiate a manual upload from the plugins settings page?

I found the ACL a bit confusing. When I created a bucket trough Dreamhost the bucket did not have the correct ACL but as far as I can remember creating it through the clients I tested actually did.

I have not found any settings on aws about auto-setting ACL´s.

]]> By: etzhaimhttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-17949 etzhaim Sat, 15 May 2010 04:45:19 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-17949 Great review. I am also testing Amazon S3, Cloudfront and W3 Total Cache on my website. It works great with a couple of issues: 1. In my website I use @font-face in the original theme style.css in order to use custom fonts (Hebrew) and, unfortunately, Firefox refuses to download the font files if they are hosted on S3, therefore I should add an exception to the configuration of the plugin (exclude style.css of my theme) but I do not consider this problem as a bug. 2. This one is definitely a bug of W3 Total Cache and I hope they will solve it soon. If you upload the Media library on S3, the original size files are not recognized and not transferred. If you use a lightbox-like effect, as I am, this issue is quite painful. An option could be to re-add the uploads as a custom directory but I think developers should address this problem.I have a question for you: how about auto-setting ACL's on S3? I have googled for it but could not find any answer. Any help? Great review. I am also testing Amazon S3, Cloudfront and W3 Total Cache on my website. It works great with a couple of issues:
1. In my website I use @font-face in the original theme style.css in order to use custom fonts (Hebrew) and, unfortunately, Firefox refuses to download the font files if they are hosted on S3, therefore I should add an exception to the configuration of the plugin (exclude style.css of my theme) but I do not consider this problem as a bug.
2. This one is definitely a bug of W3 Total Cache and I hope they will solve it soon. If you upload the Media library on S3, the original size files are not recognized and not transferred. If you use a lightbox-like effect, as I am, this issue is quite painful. An option could be to re-add the uploads as a custom directory but I think developers should address this problem.

I have a question for you: how about auto-setting ACL’s on S3? I have googled for it but could not find any answer. Any help?

]]> By: larrehttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-14874 larre Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:16:30 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-14874 Hi Matt! Thanks for your comment. I think more people should try out cloud services like aws. The sudden peak in traffic from reddit, digg etc is a problem. I have just experienced it a couple of times, but used Dreamhost's services for enabling more memory and cpu on the fly. But it is actually pretty expensive. Using caching and CDN is a great solution for handling the peaks without going bankruptcy, and still have a decent response time ;-) Hi Matt!
Thanks for your comment. I think more people should try out cloud services like aws. The sudden peak in traffic from reddit, digg etc is a problem. I have just experienced it a couple of times, but used Dreamhost’s services for enabling more memory and cpu on the fly. But it is actually pretty expensive. Using caching and CDN is a great solution for handling the peaks without going bankruptcy, and still have a decent response time ;-)

]]> By: Matt Strattonhttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-14834 Matt Stratton Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:42:17 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-14834 I came across this post when looking to troubleshoot an issue with WPTouch and W3 Total Cache. Kind of made me chuckle since I just did all of this myself on my blog last weekend...only difference is I don't use Dreamhost, but that's a minor difference.The cool thing, timing-wise, is that I randomly implemented all this caching and CDN stuff just in time! On Monday, my blog which usually gets about 100-200 visitors on a good day, received over 20,000 visitors from Reddit. If I hadn't put all the fun CloudFront stuff in place, my server would have melted down from the load, I'm sure. Honestly, if you can offload all the images, stylesheets, and javascripts to the CDN, the straight HTML coming from your server is going to be pretty mild. I pushed over 8GB of CDN stuff this week, and that would have killed my server...but the static pages were nothing. Especially once you include the caching plugin to offset the database calls (caching worked GREAT in my case, as almost all the traffic was to the same post/page).Oh, and my Amazon bill for all of that? One dollar and seventy-six cents :)Here's a bit more of the story - http://mattstratton.com/meta/tick-tick-boom I came across this post when looking to troubleshoot an issue with WPTouch and W3 Total Cache. Kind of made me chuckle since I just did all of this myself on my blog last weekend…only difference is I don’t use Dreamhost, but that’s a minor difference.The cool thing, timing-wise, is that I randomly implemented all this caching and CDN stuff just in time! On Monday, my blog which usually gets about 100-200 visitors on a good day, received over 20,000 visitors from Reddit. If I hadn’t put all the fun CloudFront stuff in place, my server would have melted down from the load, I’m sure. Honestly, if you can offload all the images, stylesheets, and javascripts to the CDN, the straight HTML coming from your server is going to be pretty mild. I pushed over 8GB of CDN stuff this week, and that would have killed my server…but the static pages were nothing. Especially once you include the caching plugin to offset the database calls (caching worked GREAT in my case, as almost all the traffic was to the same post/page).Oh, and my Amazon bill for all of that? One dollar and seventy-six cents :) Here’s a bit more of the story – http://mattstratton.com/meta/tick-tick-boom

]]> By: JohnnyCashhttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-14039 JohnnyCash Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:03:23 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-14039 Hi there. Thank you for a great post. It was very helpfull. Anyone reading this post should bookmark this guys contents.I have a new PC and needed some installation help so i went over to http://www.InstallSoftware.com but they did not provide me with the in depth info this guy did. he kicks all the bigger sites' butts.Thanks Again Hi there.
Thank you for a great post. It was very helpfull.
Anyone reading this post should bookmark this guys contents.

I have a new PC and needed some installation help so i went over to http://www.InstallSoftware.com but they did not provide me with the in depth
info this guy did. he kicks all the bigger sites’ butts.

Thanks Again

]]> By: Tweets that mention Amazon S3 and CloudFront with Wordpress and DreamHost | .larre -- Topsy.comhttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-13744 Tweets that mention Amazon S3 and CloudFront with Wordpress and DreamHost | .larre -- Topsy.com Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:24:33 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-13744 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Simone Brunozzi, Eyvind A. Larre, Gerald Scott, Erlend Schei, Pål Sollie and others. Pål Sollie said: RT @larre: New blog post: Amazon S3 and CloudFront with Wordpress and DreamHost http://bit.ly/4WUb9S (larre.com) [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Simone Brunozzi, Eyvind A. Larre, Gerald Scott, Erlend Schei, Pål Sollie and others. Pål Sollie said: RT @larre: New blog post: Amazon S3 and CloudFront with WordPress and DreamHost http://bit.ly/4WUb9S (larre.com) [...]

]]> By: Andyhttp://www.larre.com/2010/01/24/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress-and-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-13733 Andy Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:17:45 +0000 http://www.larre.com/?p=418#comment-13733 Every Amazon S3 related blog gives you an impression that there is only one Amazon S3 client available – S3 fox. However there are many more freeware clients which are much superior. For instance, S3HUB for Mac (http://s3hub.com) and CloudBerry Explorer for Windows (http://s3.cloudberrylab.com/) . Every Amazon S3 related blog gives you an impression that there is only one Amazon S3 client available – S3 fox. However there are many more freeware clients which are much superior. For instance, S3HUB for Mac (http://s3hub.com) and CloudBerry Explorer for Windows (http://s3.cloudberrylab.com/) .

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