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Ask HN: Digital Ocean vs. AWS for a Growing Wordpress Site
I run a website that is growing in traffic and as of this month will clock 1.5 million monthly hits. I am now starting to face a few downtimes with my DO droplet (2 GB RAM, 2 CPU). Would you recommend that I now move to AWS or should I continue with a larger instance on DO and save money? Don't have indepth knowledge about setting these things up, have a friend who helps me out so would prefer something that really has very minimal downtime or issue-fixing. Thanks!
- getdavidhiggins 11y agoIs the blog run from the raw IP address? I wrote an article about why you should proxy a blog through a CDN: http://blog.higg.im/2015/02/10/why-i-run-this-blog-on-maxcdn/ http://blog.higg.im/2015/02/10/why-i-run-this-blog-on-maxcdn... I since moved away from roll-you-own WP solutions as it's a devops nightmare, and tricky to get right, unless you pay someone to do it for you. You should probably try to get your domain off the apex too: http://blog.higg.im/2014/03/10/getting-jque-re-off-the-apex/ http://blog.higg.im/2014/03/10/getting-jque-re-off-the-apex/
- k0nsl 11y agoDidn't you ever receive DDoS attacks while on DO and getting such amounts of visits? Because you'll be null routed in no time which isn't good for the uptime ;) I'd suggest BuyVM instead of either DO or AWS. That's a damn good provider in most respects. They offer filtering through Voxility, as well, at very affordable pricing ($3 per IP).