In my humble opinion, WordPress is something to be surpassed, that is why it fails on being cloud-friendly. If someone makes a system as customizable and flexible as WordPress it would be a huge success.
Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
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Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
#12Is he a dev ops? Why is he using amazon, I thought devops were supposed to be smart..
Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
#13This guide is spot on for WordPress on AWS.
The persistent and shared EFS volume was the missing piece for running WordPress without frustrating patches.
And CloudFormation is the AWS best practice.
Convox has a few serious WordPress installs. The only difference is that it uses ECS so those EC2 instances can be utilized for more apps.
Also you can hack on the WordPress site locally with Docker via 'convox start'
https://convox.com/docs/wordpress/
Disclaimer: I work on Convox.
Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
#14Before you hop on board with this "pain free" solution, you should accept the fact that you may end up maintaining this: https://github.com/widdix/aws-cf-templates/blob/master/wordp... There should be easier way, e.g. in Azure you can start WordPress (includes MySQL, limited to one app service instance) with one click, not sure what are the costs of maintaining that, but at least starting one in that case is pain fre…
Infrastructure as code offers a lower maintenance cost over time in many scenarios.
Sure you can click to set up WordPress on other hosts.
But how do you scale capacity of the servers or the database? How do you peer the network to your other cloud resources? How do you mirror the stack in another region?
With CloudFormation resource management is a few API calls away.
You can also use CloudFormation in point and click mode to create a stack and update its resources.
It may be overkill for some cases but for serious systems it's the best practice.
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#15Before you hop on board with this "pain free" solution, you should accept the fact that you may end up maintaining this: https://github.com/widdix/aws-cf-templates/blob/master/wordp... There should be easier way, e.g. in Azure you can start WordPress (includes MySQL, limited to one app service instance) with one click, not sure what are the costs of maintaining that, but at least starting one in that case is pain fre…
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#16And this cloud setup is going to cost probably for few hundreds of dollars a month. Has anybody working towards serverless version of wp?
The ELB is $20/mo. A micro RDS is $12/mo. 3 x t2.micro EC2 instance is $15/month.
So you're looking at ~ $50/mo.
For a setup that can now scale to any volume independently on the HTTP, compute and database tiers.
Overkill for a personal WordPress. Just right for a serious business.
Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
#17Before you hop on board with this "pain free" solution, you should accept the fact that you may end up maintaining this: https://github.com/widdix/aws-cf-templates/blob/master/wordp... There should be easier way, e.g. in Azure you can start WordPress (includes MySQL, limited to one app service instance) with one click, not sure what are the costs of maintaining that, but at least starting one in that case is pain fre…
Infrastructure as code offers a lower maintenance cost over time in many scenarios. Sure you can click to set up WordPress on other hosts. But how do you scale capacity of the servers or the database? How do you peer the network to your other cloud resources? How do you mirror the stack in another region? With CloudFormation resource management is a few API calls away. You can also use CloudFormation in point and cli…
Quick shout out to Sandstorm.io where you can run Wordpress and many other useful apps fairly easily...
Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
#18Why is anyone running WordPress anymore.? So many better options.100s if not 1,000s. The fact that you need elaborate guides to host it one of the most common hosting providers is yet another example. It's junk. Time to move on.
Edit: and the down votes are why this piece of garbage lives on. Please stop trying to hide how awful WordPress is. We all know it's terrible. Just because you work on it for a living doesn't make it right for you to publicly lie about it and down vote.
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#19Why is anyone running WordPress anymore.? So many better options.100s if not 1,000s. The fact that you need elaborate guides to host it one of the most common hosting providers is yet another example. It's junk. Time to move on. Edit: and the down votes are why this piece of garbage lives on. Please stop trying to hide how awful WordPress is. We all know it's terrible. Just because you work on it for a living doesn't…
Can you list a few? I'm genuinely curious which ones you consider so much better.
Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
#20Why is anyone running WordPress anymore.? So many better options.100s if not 1,000s. The fact that you need elaborate guides to host it one of the most common hosting providers is yet another example. It's junk. Time to move on. Edit: and the down votes are why this piece of garbage lives on. Please stop trying to hide how awful WordPress is. We all know it's terrible. Just because you work on it for a living doesn't…
Because moving an existing site to another platform is non-trivial. Sure I could figure out how to move over my theme, hundreds of posts, my menus, sidebars, hundreds of images, and all of my registered users.
Or I could just stick with the existing good enough system and go do something else.