Is Amazon EC2 a viable solution for Wordpress websites?
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I'm getting very interested in Amazon Web Services lately as an alternative to reseller hosting.
Anyone have experience on their cloud with Wordpress sites? Would be nice to be able to spin up sites to faster service if needed, but not sure if its more pricey and not ready for that adoption yet.
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Hi William,
It mostly depends on how much volume based on traffic you're generating. If you're just hosting a simple WordPress site with on average a couple of thousand visitors you could use AWS but it's probably not really for you as the setup time will be much higher. Although if you're receiving tens of thousands of visitor everyday then it could be worth it as you can easily scale the number of servers you run.
Hope this give some insights.
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I recently installed Amazon cloud to my web. It work well and i think is easy to manage the amazon dashboard. Although i am not an expert but it seems to word fine.
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I have just setup a Wordpress site on an EC2 instance and it seems really fast, and ideal for giving you that extra control to configure your server how you want. This would be ideal for you creating a hosting environment as an alternative to reseller and you have a lot of great control on how you setup your hosting environment.
On a side note..
However what I would say is this - what is the site that you are going to be running and what traffic, because unless you really need that extra control and flexibility I personally would go down the wpengine route for WordPress. I host several sites on wpengine and I think it is second to none for WordPress. I am not affiliated to them in anyway just impressed after testing lots of hosts with WordPress over the years. The only reason I went ec2 is because the new site I am working on required some extra features to work - ioncube etc.
In terms of reseller hosting I believe it could be viable on ec2..
Hope this helps
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