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Provisioning a single Wordpress box is very straightforward using AWS Lightsail and a Bitnami Wordpress image. You can push it up to the equivalent of an m5.2xl

Provisioning a single Wordpress box is very straightforward using AWS Lightsail and a Bitnami Wordpress image. You can push it up to the equivalent of an m5.2xlarge instance. Unless you really need auto-scaling, this seems like overkill?

gtsteve 7y ago
EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots. Writing to EFS however means that you can just treat your EC2 instance as a stateless front-end server that can be swapped out whenever needed. Couple that with an autoscaling group and when the instance inevitably dies, it'll automatically come back up on a new host. I don't have an ops team so I prefer AWS to be responsible for stuff like this wherever possible.
- dannyw 7y ago
  I have a Wordpress blog that has been continuously up, barring two host server migrations (~3 hours), since 2004. It is powered by a Linode. I have literally never needed to manage the server unless I was actively working on something, like changing the theme. People overcomplicate things these days. You could spend X hours creating some autoscaling, autorecovering setup; but for 99% of projects, it'd maybe encounter an outage that requires your intervention, once a decade.
  - brodouevencode 7y ago
    Fair, but how many customers do you serve? The example provided was enterprise level. TBH I would have not chosen Wordpress as the application of choice but the architecture is what would be recommended for an enterprise solution. Too many people are getting hung up on it being WP. AMZN doesn't care what the application is and has no vested interest (that I'm aware of) in WP. EDIT: clarity
- hanoz 7y ago
  >EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots. Where a long enough timeline is 700 years (before you're more likely than not to have suffered a full or partial failure).
- dpedu 7y ago
  > EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots. Taking regular snapshots decreases the chance of an EBS drive failing.
- liveoneggs 7y ago
  EFS is intolerably slow and keeping your php files on it is a bad idea. It's a little more complex but using packagist to install everyy except locally and then put wp-content/uploads/ on EFS works okay. fs-cache/cachefilesd helps.
ridruejo 7y ago
Correct. This template is ALSO created by Bitnami (I’m the cofounder). For most people Lightsail (or Wordpress.com) are better choices, for others not
tedk-42 7y ago
Spoken like someone who's never used EFS in production. With WP, your page loads are incredibly slow with EFS as pointed out by others. Bah meant for the comment below!

gtsteve 7y ago

EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots. Writing to EFS however means that you can just treat your EC2 instance as a stateless front-end server that can be swapped out whenever needed. Couple that with an autoscaling group and when the instance inevitably dies, it'll automatically come back up on a new host. I don't have an ops team so I prefer AWS to be responsible for stuff like this wherever possible.

dannyw 7y ago
I have a Wordpress blog that has been continuously up, barring two host server migrations (~3 hours), since 2004. It is powered by a Linode. I have literally never needed to manage the server unless I was actively working on something, like changing the theme. People overcomplicate things these days. You could spend X hours creating some autoscaling, autorecovering setup; but for 99% of projects, it'd maybe encounter an outage that requires your intervention, once a decade.
- brodouevencode 7y ago
  Fair, but how many customers do you serve? The example provided was enterprise level. TBH I would have not chosen Wordpress as the application of choice but the architecture is what would be recommended for an enterprise solution. Too many people are getting hung up on it being WP. AMZN doesn't care what the application is and has no vested interest (that I'm aware of) in WP. EDIT: clarity
hanoz 7y ago
>EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots. Where a long enough timeline is 700 years (before you're more likely than not to have suffered a full or partial failure).
dpedu 7y ago
> EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots. Taking regular snapshots decreases the chance of an EBS drive failing.
liveoneggs 7y ago
EFS is intolerably slow and keeping your php files on it is a bad idea. It's a little more complex but using packagist to install everyy except locally and then put wp-content/uploads/ on EFS works okay. fs-cache/cachefilesd helps.

ridruejo 7y ago

Correct. This template is ALSO created by Bitnami (I’m the cofounder). For most people Lightsail (or Wordpress.com) are better choices, for others not

tedk-42 7y ago

Spoken like someone who's never used EFS in production. With WP, your page loads are incredibly slow with EFS as pointed out by others. Bah meant for the comment below!