Sounds like you are looking for a complex answer to an unusual situation.
Have you considered changing hosts? Or asking you current hosts to not have your WordPress installation stored in such a way?
This first time I heard of a problem where you loose your wordpress updates if I was you would start looking for a host that is more stable I have my website on my host for 4 years and never came across where I loose my updates.
Well, my hoster is my own company’s hosting service so I pretty much have to use it. 🙂
This hosting service is built this way for a good reason. You upload your app (an app you wrote, WordPress, whatever) to the service and then it distributes it automatically across multiple hosts for load balancing and fault tolerance. You never know exactly which VM or server might be running your app. The original image of your app is stored as a template which then get’s re-distributed to additional servers as needs require. The end result is that everything keeps reverting to that golden image template which you originally uploaded.
This normally isn’t a problem since the apps people deploy on our server are designed to use a remote database (MySQL, etc) or file services as needed which ensures that the real “data” is centralized and shared across all the different servers which might be running the app.
The upshot is that I do need to use this hosting service and would dearly like to figure out how to configure WordPress to store it’s dynamic content at a separate location. I have already figured out how to have all the images stored somewhere else, but I don’t know how to make sure new posts and other items are stored on a remote location too.
What I understand is that currently you do not have your own website or blog. Whatever you create is hosted by them and used by them. In other words, you are working for your company. And you have stored some of your work in servers other than your company’s servers and sites. Is it so?
If that is the case, do you want to create your own website or blog? Put your question straight and clear, and answer in definite terms so that someone in this forum will guide you through your problem.
The site I want to setup is for my employer, not a personal blog. It will serve as our main corporate site and include a company blog and podcasts.
Since we offer app hosting to developers we would like to use our own service to host this. I was hoping to use WordPress as the platform for the web site.
All I need to do is come up with a way to configure WordPress to place all dynamic content (like new posts, uploaded media files, etc) on a remote file store (i.e. seperate from the servers hosting the WordPress site) and then I can use my company’s hosting service just fine.
