= Hosting WordPress on AWS opinions? =
I've been curious for awhile about hosting a WordPress site on AWS. According to AWS, the average cost of hosting a WordPress site is around $450 a month, which puts it into dedicated server territory.
Anyone care to share their experience on hosting a WordPress site on AWS?
cost of hosting a WordPress site is around $450 a month,
There's absolutely no reason to approach that cost without being a particularly large site.
And anything running on AWS at that scale is going to scale out an awful lot better than a single dedicated server.
Which AWS product? EC2 or Lightsail? Lightsail starts at $3.50 per month - though I wouldn't recommend it for WP though, min Lightsail would be the 1GB server for $5pm.
There are a couple of options you have when hosting on wordpress on AWS and it depends a lot on much time you want to spent on this and how good you are in this sphere of tech.
The "easiest" option is running Wordpress on Lightsail, which you can for a couple of bucks a month (30 days for free even) - although that machine is probably slow af. The problem here though is that despite it beeing advertised as plug and play, some things are still a little complicated (ssl, php mailer and some random quirks that the bitnami image has).
Another thing to beware of here is the concept of cpu boost credits, which can wreck your instance if you get unexpected traffic spikes, which is btw poorly communicated that lightsail even relies on them.
Another option is running it on an EC2 instance and install the stuff yourself, either from an image or you do it yourself. From a cost perspective it obviously depends on how much traffic/storage/ and so on you need.
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my overall opinion though is that unless you need a super scalable instance of wordpress and want to use a lot of the services amazon provides (load balancing and so on) there is not enough upside to do this on aws.
$450 a month What services / setup did they recommend? What kind of traffic are you expecting?
I've never spent $450/month on a WP site and we host tons of them.
Total Billing Estimates: The total cost of building a WordPress website will vary depending on your usage and the instance types you select for the web server and database instance. Using the default configuration recommended in this guide, it will typically cost $450/month to host the WordPress site. This cost reflects the minimum resources recommended for a production WordPress workload, with only one active web server and a separate Amazon RDS MySQL database instance. The total cost may increase if you use Auto Scaling to increase the number of web server instances in the event of increased traffic to your WordPress site (approximately $75/month for each additional web server assuming that the web server is active for the entire month).
httpsaws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/build-wordpress-website/services-costs/
I have a client who is stretching the limit of my shared hosting plan and I am considering moving him to a VPS, but the thought occurred to me to check out what other options are out there, such as AWS. I haven't received any specific recommendations from AWS yet.
No-one going to ask the most important question(s)?
What exactly sized site are you trying to host size & traffic wise?
Traffic, size of site, is it ecommerce doing 10 sales a month or ecommerce doing 100,000 sales a month, does it have 30 images on the site or 30,000 images.
$450/month in pure hosting costs is one chunky site.
Capping out shared hosting isn't hard withhosting or a poorly optimised website with plugin, page builder, unoptimised image bloat.
$450 a month is insanely expensive unless you have a lot of traffic.
If you have even $35 a month to spend you'd be wise to investigate the various managed service WordPress hosts, like WPEngine. They can run your WordPress site. Going with one of them is like buying a car rather than a big bucket of car parts and building your own.
I would only recommend hosting on AWS platform if you:
Have the technical knowledge to set up everything from scratch.
Have a big website that needs scalability.
Have more than enough $ to spend.
Otherwise, it is much wiser to just use a managed hosting provider for your WordPress site. It'll be cost-effective, hassle-free and most of the time, they also provide easy scalability in case your website grows.
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