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Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

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Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

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post #46

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Someone needs to convert `capital_P_dangit` to a userscript :) https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/capital_P_dan...

You mean like this? https://github.com/jonathanbardo/capital_P_dangit

Nice! I figured it existed, but a cursory search didn't find it. Thanks.

Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

#53
post #26

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What your requirements? With Google rendering JavaScript any static site generator is probably going to be better. If you need crud functionality any number of hosted and open source crud providers are available. Or just use a hosted site builder. They are all better at this point.

Static site generators are just fine for personal blogs. They don't fit the bill at all when you have a group of people all writing on one blog and you need things like access controls and media file management. Also, not sure why google rendering JavaScript would have any effect on static site generators.

You can use SSGs with GitHub for multi-author blogs. Prose.io makes a nice writing interface for GitHub content. If you hook it up to something like Travis CI, the site can be regenerated automatically on GitHub commits.

It's a bit complicated compared to just running a WordPress instance, but it works pretty well.

Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

#54

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.

I hope your right, but part of the problem is the traction WordPress has. We tried to go with something other than WordPress, but ranbinto all sorts of issues mostly because everything the marketing people wanted to use was already built for WordPress. We also had a hard time finding contractors to make themes and stuff because they all knew WordPress but didn't want to commit to something else.

Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

#55
post #18

Why 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…

Face it: The war's over and WordPress won. I made an election site for a friend who's running for a city council position. Even though I only program in Erlang, we did the site in WordPress.

Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

#56
Can someone chime in why hosting this behind Cloudflare is a bad idea? For something which is a blog/CMS (put another way the # of readers >> # of creators), I'm envisioning using a single instance behind Cloudflare with heavy caching turned on? Cloudflare caches and serves everything. For free (you can pay them if you want). Host your assets in S3 or GCS, also put them behind Cloudflare. If your instance goes down, you have a rough chunk of your caching window to bring your instance back online (which if it's well encapsulated should be a few scripts to spawn a new instance and re-point the cloud provider internal DNS which will update ~1s)

Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

#57
post #18

Why 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…

I've been running WordPress on a handful of sites for a decade or so.

I would like to migrate a couple of sites to something else (likely just static-file sites), but that's just a personal preference.

It works and I don't really have to mess with it.

Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

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post #18

Why 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…

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Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

#59

Can someone chime in why hosting this behind Cloudflare is a bad idea? For something which is a blog/CMS (put another way the # of readers >> # of creators), I'm envisioning using a single instance behind Cloudflare with heavy caching turned on? Cloudflare caches and serves everything. For free (you can pay them if you want). Host your assets in S3 or GCS, also put them behind Cloudflare. If your instance goes down,…

I use Cloudflare for mine (https://www.garysieling.com/blog) - they catch 75% of the requests. For sections that are rarely hit, you'd still get 404's from downtime, and there are more valid URLs to pages on a Wordpress site than you'd think.

Re: Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

#60
post #4

And this cloud setup is going to cost probably for few hundreds of dollars a month. Has anybody working towards serverless version of wp?

If a Wordpress site is valuable enough to justify paying an engineer to set this up, hundreds a month are probably not a concern.
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