WordPress: Best Practices on AWS
AWS Architecture BlogWordPress: Best Practices on AWSby Paul Lewis | on23 MAR 2018| inArchitecture|Permalink|ShareAs most of you already know, WordPress is a popular open-source blogging platform and content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. AWS customers deploy everything from simple blogs to high-traffic, complex websites.We have recently updated the“WordPress: Best Practices on AWS”whitepaper to incorporate new AWS services and the latest best practices and thinking. In the updated whitepaper we cover creating a simple deployment with a single server, which is a great starting point for those new to WordPress, or those looking for a cost-efficient solution for development and test environments.We also look at to separate out the various components of a typical WordPress website in order to improve performance, resiliency, and cost efficiency, culminating in a highly available, multi-server, scalable architecture like the one illustrated below.The elastic deployment outlined in the whitepaper is very closely related to thereference architecturefor deploying WordPress on AWS, which is available on GitHub.TAGS:whitepaper,WordPressPaul LewisPaul is a Solutions Architect in the New Economies and Startup practice in the UK. He’s been tinkering with WordPress websites for almost 10 years, and has a special interest in container technologies.
As most of you already know, WordPress is a popular open-source blogging platform and content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. AWS customers deploy everything from simple blogs to high-traffic, complex websites. We have recently updated the “WordPress: Best Practices on AWS” whitepaper to incorporate new AWS services and the latest best practices […]
Paul Lewis
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