Is Amazon a Good Choice for Hosting a WordPress Website?

After going through the truth that I would like a sooner internet hosting supplier, I lastly determined to check out a few of Amazon’s internet hosting merchandise. Amazon has so many net companies that it may be a bit formidable to get began with them, however, I made a decision to present it a go.

I was looking for the flexible web hosting for WordPress websites and I found Amazon has a special hosting for WordPress CMS. Utilizing their new “LightSail” product, I found that it was truly fairly straight ahead to configure and cargo up WordPress. There are a number of different widespread CMS apps as properly, corresponding to Drupal and Joomla. If you’re eager about an e-Commerce resolution, Magento can be supported.

Lightsail is just not for giant deployments, nevertheless, it’s fairly darn simple for smaller necessities. In a nutshell, you enroll, put in your area title, arrange WordPress, arrange your DNS zones, map the static IP tackle that is assigned to you, and it launches.

If you go to launch one of many apps, Amazon refers to them as “situations”. You would choose the occasion that you’re eager about (WordPress, Drupal, and so on) and observe the step-by-step instructions.

1. First of all, you need to call your instance. If you happen to do not title it, Lightsail will create a reputation for you. Amazon works in zones, and in my case, it is often Virginia. You possibly can change the zone in the event you like, however, I’ve discovered it is higher simply to go away it on the default zone.

2. Additionally, you will choose your occasion plan, which is the month-to-month charge that fits your necessities.

3. You may also run different varied scrips and select both the default SSH key pair or change the important thing pair. As above, I all the time keep on with the default.

4. Then click on create. It takes a few minutes after which a web page comes up with a public IP tackle and a username to hook up with the occasion. You’ll need your personal key out of your Amazon account, so if you do not have one, you will create it.

5. Bitnami is used to hook up with the brand new web site. However after, you’ve got loaded WordPress, you login precisely the identical means with each different internet hosting firm. Bitnami is fairly intuitive and would not take greater than 15 or 20 minutes to learn to navigate around.

There are additionally some mission guides and movies as properly to assist with the setup. In keeping with the WordPress mission information, there are solely 5 steps, however, in actuality, it is extra like eight steps.

I loaded this up a number of weeks in the past, so I have not had time to totally construct it out, however, I had no issues loading the theme. I am additionally utilizing an AWS plugin (free) that may copy any media information to Amazon S3 and serve from S3 Cloudfront. Hopefully, it will minimize down on load instances for my pages.