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Discover how to work with cloud storage and use hosting services for your web applications. These cloud and hosting tutorials will get you up and running in no time.

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  1. Running WordPress on OpenShift: An Introduction

    Running WordPress on OpenShift: An Introduction

    Tutorial Intermediate

    OpenShift is a PaaS that allow you to run your own app for free with low resources. It offers 1GB storage and 512MB RAM, and has support for custom domains....

  2. Rapid Website Deployment With Django, Heroku & New Relic

    Rapid Website Deployment With Django, Heroku & New Relic

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Rapidly deploying websites has never been easier, or as affordable as it is now, when combining Django, Heroku, and New Relic. Follow along in this tutorial...

  3. Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache

    Optimizing WordPress with Varnish and W3 Total Cache

    Tutorial Intermediate

    If you self-host WordPress, it's advisable to implement some kind of caching solution. Whether you want to run your blog in an economical micro instance at...

  4. Installing WordPress in the Amazon Cloud

    Installing WordPress in the Amazon Cloud

    Tutorial Intermediate

    This guide will provide you a detailed, step by step approach to setting up your WordPress blog at AWS in a high performance, economical fashion using an AWS...

  5. Using New Relic to Monitor Your Servers

    Using New Relic to Monitor Your Servers

    Tutorial Beginner

    Today we will look at how to use New Relic to monitor your infrastructure (i.e. your production server) and why you'd want to.

  6. Configuring W3 Total Cache: An Introduction

    Configuring W3 Total Cache: An Introduction

    Tutorial Intermediate

    The page speed of an optimized website scaled for high traffic is a phrase which a developer often hears from the moment they enter the industry. There is a...

  7. Easily Deploy Redis Backed Web Apps With Docker

    Easily Deploy Redis Backed Web Apps With Docker

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Learn how to setup and deploy a Redis powered Python web app using Docker.

  8. Modern WordPress Workflow for Professionals: Rationale

    Modern WordPress Workflow for Professionals: Rationale

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Here on Wptuts+ we've covered a number of different workflows that people use when developing for WordPress. WAMP on Windows, MAMP on Mac, or XAMPP for...

  9. HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Resources

    HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Resources

    Tutorial Intermediate

    HTTP is the protocol that enables us to buy microwave ovens from Amazon.com, reunite with an old friend in a Facebook chat, and watch funny cat videos on...

  10. HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Connections

    HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Connections

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the last article we looked at HTTP messages and saw examples of the text commands and codes that flow from the client to the server and back in an HTTP...

  11. HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Messages

    HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Messages

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this chapter, we'll look inside the messages exchanged in an HTTP transaction. We'll learn about message types, HTTP headers, and status codes....

  12. HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Web Architecture

    HTTP Succinctly: HTTP Web Architecture

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In the first chapter we talked about resources, but mostly focused on URLs and how to interpret a URL. However, resources are the centerpiece of HTTP. Now...