Paul Scollon is a Technical Officer at Dundalk Institute of Technology, primarily responsible for the day-to-day delivery of web-based IT services to students in the Department of Computing and Mathematics. He also teaches a WordPress Beginners’ nightclass at DkIT and runs a small web development business in the ‘real’ world (WordPress is used as the base of all website projects).
Paul uses GNU/Linux and open source software exclusively to create the solutions required by lecturers in class. He carries what he has learned to his own business, altFIRE Technologies, thus keeping costs down for clients.
In 2016 Paul created My WordPress VPS which provides pre-built, managed and monitored WordPress servers hosted at Digital Ocean.
His presentation ‘Deploying and using WordPress in a learning environment’ will include a discussion on the three methods the institute uses to deploy WordPress on campus to students:
1) LAMP Stack deployed by bash scripts
2) VM Templates in XCP-ng (via Xen Orchestra frontend)
3) App Templates in Docker (via Portainer frontend)