# Articles from October 2024 - DeployHQ Blog

Displaying posts **1** – **10** of **10** in total

### [The Cloud Exit Movement: A Guide for DeployHQ Users](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/the-cloud-exit-movement-a-guide-for-deployhq-users)

Posted on 28th October 2024

Understand the trend of reduced reliance on cloud providers. Learn about the Cloud Exit/Offboarding movement and its impact on IT infrastructure control.

### [What Is DevOps? Practices, Tools, and How to Get Started](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/what-is-devops)

Posted on 25th October 2024

DevOps brings development and operations together to ship software faster with fewer failures. Learn the core practices, how DevOps differs from SRE and Platform Engineering, and where to start.

### [DeployHQ Meets DigitalOcean: A Perfect Match for Seamless Deployments](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/deployhq-meets-digitalocean-a-perfect-match-for-seamless-deployments)

Posted on 24th October 2024

DeployHQ DigitalOcean partnership: Simplified deployment. Deploy applications directly to droplets from your dashboard with this powerful integration.

### [What Is CI/CD? A Practical Guide to Continuous Integration and Delivery](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/what-is-ci-cd)

Posted on 23rd October 2024

CI/CD automates building, testing, and deploying software on every code change. Learn how CI and CD differ, see real pipeline examples, and set up your first pipeline step by step.

### [How to Implement Continuous Deployment: A Practical Guide](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/continuous-deployment-with-deployhq)

Posted on 21st October 2024

How to implement continuous deployment safely: prerequisites, a 5-stage pipeline, deployment patterns, DORA metrics, and tooling that handles rollback.

### [Modern WordPress Plugin Development](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/modern-wordpress-plugin-development)

Posted on 17th October 2024

Build WordPress plugins with Composer, PSR-4 autoloading, dependency injection, and clean Git deployments — no more dumping everything into one PHP file.

### [How to Deploy to Servers Behind a Firewall: 5 Methods Compared](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/deploying-behind-firewalls-made-easy-introducing-the-deployhq-agent)

Posted on 14th October 2024

Learn 5 proven methods to deploy code to servers behind firewalls — from SSH reverse tunnels and VPNs to deployment agents. Includes a side-by-side comparison to help you choose the right approach.

### [DeployHQ: Mastering Deployment Strategies](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/deployhq-mastering-deployment-strategies)

Posted on 10th October 2024

Improve application performance and reliability with the right deployment strategy. Compare sequential and parallel deployments and see how DeployHQ's parallel feature excels.

### [Is FTP Dead? A Look at Its Continued Use in Deployment](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/is-ftp-dead-a-look-at-its-continued-use-in-deployment)

Posted on 7th October 2024

Is FTP dead in 2026? No — but it should be your last resort. FTP is still used for legacy CMS hosting, shared hosting providers, and bulk file transfers, but SFTP and FTPS are safer alternatives for every use case. Here's where FTP still makes sense, where it doesn't, and how to modernise your deployment workflow.

### [Introducing Deployment Artefacts in DeployHQ](https://www.deployhq.com/blog/introducing-deployment-artefacts-in-deployhq)

Posted on 3rd October 2024

We're excited to announce a new feature in DeployHQ that gives you even more control over your deployments: Deployment Artefacts.