Sail for WordPress

01/02/2022

One question we get asked a lot is why should someone use Sail, if they could simply use the 1-click install WordPress image from the DigitalOcean marketplace.

In this tutorial we'll look at what that image is and how it works, and compare that to what you get when provisioning WordPress with Sail CLI.

DigitalOcean supports plenty of applications through their Marketplace, including WordPress. These are essentially disk images, which you can deploy to the cloud with just one click. Well, maybe a few clicks. In this article we’ll look at what exactly is in that WordPress image provided by Digital...

22/01/2022

We compared pricing at 7 leading WordPress hosting providers. Five sites with a combined 300k monthly visits and 40GB of media will cost $175 per month on average.

With Sail on DigitalOcean you could be paying only $9 per month.

Sail CLI is free and open source:

Sail is a free CLI tool to deploy, manage and scale WordPress applications in the DigitalOcean cloud.

22/01/2022

Wow, pages have gotten so much more complicated from the last time I set one up. It's easier to register a business in some countries.