{"id":2764,"date":"2017-08-12T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T10:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:23:05","slug":"learn-host-wordpress-site-digitalocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/learn-host-wordpress-site-digitalocean\/","title":{"rendered":"MEETUP: \ud83d\udce6 Learn to Host Your WordPress Site With DigitalOcean!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/section>\n
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\ud83d\ude4c Hey, everyone! This last Sunday (2017-08-20) I arranged a local meetup for the tech-junkies.<\/p>\n

I do that very often like twice a month, but this one was different. Last year in October I arranged a meetup for DigitalOcean and GitHub which was meant to cover the #Hacktoberfest event where we all contributed to the open source.<\/p>\n

So, naturally, I ended up talking to folks from DigitalOcean and I came to know how much they care about the community aspect of their company. I liked that very much. Long story short, now I head local events for DigitalOcean here. Sort of a country lead organizer, though, let’s not go there?<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc4b\u00a0This was the first DigitalOcean meetup<\/strong>\u00a0here. I combined it with the local WordPress meetup I arrange (to save myself some time \u2014 going on vacations next week). This meetup was all very quickly arranged, with the help of\u00a0Maedah<\/a> (co-organizer and my wife), Ashar<\/a> (my WordPress student and now a close friend), and Saqib<\/a>\u00a0(another WP student of mine and the new translation editor for Urdu Lang. in WordPress).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The Meetup Notes!#<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\ud83c\udfa9\u00a0TALK<\/strong>:\u00a0I talked about<\/strong>: Self-Hosting WordPress With DigitalOcean & EasyEngine<\/a>: Slides are best viewable at MacBook Pro 15.6 and was built for width: 1280px; height: 720px;<\/code>\u00a0\u2014 I didn’t have time to make it responsive.\u00a0These slides are built with Flexbox, Gulp, Jade, Stylus, and BrowserSync all on top of the Google slide deck JS. Code License is MIT. Thanks to everyone who is directly or indirectly involved as an inspiration. Wes Bos, Chris Lema, DigitalOcean, EasyEngine, Rahul B, etc.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcf9\u00a0VIDEO<\/strong><\/a>: I forgot the tripod home and we\u00a0couldn’t do the live video but I made this one. It’s a quick video to get started with registering an account at DigitalOcean and then install EasyEngine + WordPress. Honestly, this one doesn’t compare to what I taught at the meetup there. We had so many awesome discussions there. You might wanna join next time.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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