Best practices for Plone hosting and deployment

What

Plone is one of the easiest CMSes to download and install on your local machine, but what about when you need to deploy it to a production server for public consumption? Unless you have a trained systems administrator on your team, you're going to need to learn about Apache vhosts, setting up caching proxies, load balancing, logfile rotation, backups and security issues.

This talk will cover all aspects of getting your Plone site production ready and feature many tips and tricks to make your job easier. We will discuss the various hosting strategies including the new breed of virtual cloud servers from Amazon, and tools to easily manage a cluster of machines and monitor them for high availability.

Who

Nate Aune

Jazkarta

Nate Aune is a veteran of the Plone community, having built his first Plone site in 2002, organized a dozen Plone coding sprints and served three terms on the Plone Foundation board. Nate travels all around the world evangelizing Plone and conducting trainings on Plone. Nate is the founder and president of Jazkarta, a Boston-based consulting firm that specializes in Plone and Python-based web application development.

Whether it's teaching video activists about open source tools in the jungles of Indonesia, extreme programming with sprinters on a mountaintop in Austria, or brainstorming with a customer about new ways to improve their website, Nate brings passion and dedication to everything he does.