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= Noob Help with AWS Wordpress T2.micro =

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I'm trying to set up a very simple landing page while spending the least possible because we have no income, we are a non-profit.

So I've got already the domain, and I'm watching a tutorial that guided me trough a very easy way to host a Wordpress site on AWS with the E2 t2.micro instance and set the DNS with Route 53. It's all pretty easy, but still my concern is, will this set up really continue being free or could I risk having to pay more than I would at a common paid host?

What other cheap alternatives could I consider? I really wanted us to have a professional looking email address thats why I bought the domain, and the email is already set up. This would be for a simple landing page with a newsletter form.

I'm sorry if this is a reallyquestion, I'm really a noob with all of this. And also sorry for any grammar issue, not a native english speaker.

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WordPress seems like such a humongous overkill for a simple landing page with a newsletter signup.

How much traffic are you expecting? Are we talking just the occasional visitor or are you planning to drive people to this page in numbers?

What service do you use for your newsletters? Do they let you link directly to a campaign signup page? If so, you could just have your entire domain redirect straight to them. Likely for free, registrars often let you configure the entire domain with a redirect. Would save you a lot of headache - you wouldn't need to run and maintain a WordPress instance (which you shouldn't really just set-and-forget), and you wouldn't need to worry about maintaining your VPS (which you also really shouldn't set-and-forget).

Alternately, honestly, just pay wordpress.com. $5/mo, you don't need to handle the server or WordPress, it's all managed, and you get to use your own domain.

There are a lot of benefits to managing your own server - not the least of which is the sheer power you'd get for the same price as shared hosting elsewhere. But that's a lot of effort for little benefit if your goals aren't that extensive here. You do still pay for a VPS - more than you'd think - the cost is just in time, and expertise, that you need to run it.

I was going with WordPress since it's what I knew people used for websites, but I'll look into what registrar options I find. It does sound like a better way to go.


We are not expecting a lot of traffic, only ocasional visitors since we won't be really advertising this site. But if someone was to get there, we can have a use for it.

Thanks a lot! As I said, I really have no experience doing this, and if I had the resources I would pay someone to do it for us. So instead I'm going amateur D.I.Y. and it gets so overwhelming that Im clearly not seeing the easier paths.

I would strongly recommend not using AWS in your situation. If you don't have technical experience, using an EC2 instance will be a lot of work because you have to completely manage the WordPress database, the plugins, the operating system itself (including all updates and security patches), AWS networking rules and security, and there's no support from AWS unless you pay for a support plan, and even then, they don't help with WordPress or operating system issues. Server management can be a full time job by itself.

Also, EC2 free tier is only free for 1 year and even a t2.micro can be $10/month for just the server, but then AWS also charges fees for EBS storage, network usage, and Route53 has it's own fees as well. AWS costs can add up pretty quickly.

The other person here suggested WordPress.com, this is a great option if you want to use WordPress and what I would recommend. It's only $4/month and you don't have to manage anything on the backend, just your content (blog posts, pictures, etc)

If you want to go the VPS route with Wordpress use runcloud/Serverpilot to manage it for you. They have free tiers which are more than suitable.

For this remit, I would suggest a shared host, which will be cheaper than a VPS and will give you less headaches, especially with the simple needs.

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