We are excited to share with you that we will be transitioning from Alpine to Debian as the default Linux distribution for WordPress on App Service. While Alpine has served us well with its lightweig...
Updated Dec 10, 2024
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Hi there,
nice to see this one evolving further. Although hosting Wordpress on Azure is quite expensive compared to standard Webhosting (especially in regards to FrontDoor/CDN aspects); availability and scalability are still among the best options out there.
I am currently playing around with it and doing some test migrations, everything looks really nice and neat so far.
Two things that I have run across, which could be optimized:
Using W3TC for storage integration - this stores uploads on Azure Blob Storage and makes them publicly available, which is not optimal for every scenario. If I want WordPress to be able to fully control access, I either need to use Azure Files (crazy expensive for large content like video) but it would allow native read/write access and therefor should work with each and every Wordpress plugin. Or have a part of /wp-content/uploads linked as read-only Azure Storage and manage its content manually by moving files in/out of Azure Storage and manually adjusting database links.
I am running into some font-loading issues with one of my favorite plugins, not sure yet if that one is a CORS issue or maybe a mime type one - and a default caching of 365 days on standard setup OOBE makes troubleshooting that a nightmare. A good 'troubleshooting' guidance would be nice - where to enable which logs, which log contains which service's errors, some common issues etc.
When I got my font issue resolved, I will start moving some small projects over 🙂
Well done and thanks again for the great job