Case Study: WordPress achieves persistent, reboot-safe deployments with Cloud Foundry

WordPress runs on Cloud Foundry with 1 app instance and 256M memory

The customer, WordPress, needed to run its popular content management system on a cloud platform. The challenge was that a standard deployment on Cloud Foundry could lead to data loss, as uploaded files stored on the local filesystem would be wiped out whenever the application was restarted.

The solution implemented by Cloud Foundry, using its PHP buildpack and service broker capabilities, involved creating a custom deployment. This solution automatically downloaded the WordPress source code and, critically, used an extension to mount an external SSH server for persistent file storage of uploads, themes, and plugins. As a result, Cloud Foundry provided a stable environment where WordPress could run without data loss during application restarts.

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