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[–] [email protected] 188 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I love it, because it is not an over exaggeration like it happens most of the time with memes, but actual, real diagram for WordPress.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

I didn’t even notice that, that’s amazing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Well yeah, but it has little more consideration than just a RPI sitting on your table.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The good news is, based on the diagram looking like it's straight from AWS docs, there's a Cloud formation template for all that.
Bad news, good luck troubleshooting any of it if something breaks

[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

More good news: There are lots of simpler hosts that are more deserving of your money than Jeff Bezos.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Name and shame. I'd love go start a new home project without bezobucks limiting what I can afford.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Depends on your region and use-cases.

As fellow german I luckily have an answer for smaller projects, where my non-techy mother-in-law hosts her own business wordpress since years without any issues. It's just a simple webhoster with ssh-login.

https://uberspace.de/de/

Best thing: it's pay-what-you-want. My first projects were 1€/mo because i was broke; nowadays I voluntary pay a bit more.

[–] m_randall 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been with digital ocean for more years than I can remember. I love Digital Ocean. Their core product is great, great UI, API, and their new products have been great as well. I’m using their K8s managed install for a year or so now on a product with no issues.

I believe they have 1 click installs for Wordpresss.

Here’s a referral code for $200 over 2 months if anyone wants to try it:

https://m.do.co/c/cb6d78945519

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Hetzner has €2/m webhost plan with Wordpress installer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Shouln't AWS do this?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Arstechnica runs on WordPress on AWS, and they have a really nice series of articles about it. Sure, you could use just one EC2 instance for everything, but on a high traffic website you would need a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But how many sites really are high traffic?

That's the thing with almost all of the cloud stuff: reasonable at scale, but overcomplicated garbage for 95% of the users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

95%? More like 99.999%, considering how many Wordpress sites are there.

And in many of these 0.001% cases, simple horizontal scaling would do the trick.

And if you need more than that, just use something that can work on the edge.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

Gets a $3000 bill because they picked the wrong instance type.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The equivalent of "just configure && make && make install bro, it's super easy"

(it never is)

Edit: Alright, is it just my browser or does lemmy not know how to hand ampersands? Test: && && & &

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Do you ever make install for minutes just to have it crash at the end because you missed a completely random C dependency?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And then you find out you have that dependency but your linker decides to not take it and then you have it but a slightly other version and you decide it's not worth it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

sobs uncontrollably

Uh...I mean...of course not

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Could you do that in

``

though?

Oh wait,

4 spaces

./configure && make && make install

Three circumflexes

./configure && make && make install

Edit: nope, doesn't work using the browser interface

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe somebody is paranoid about injections?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gotta do that for my blog. It'll score me my next job. Might cost me $300 a month for a blog no one reads.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If a basic Wordpress on aws (no load balancers or auto scaling) is all you need… it is super easy to run on aws. Like a few clicks easy. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/projects/wordpress/

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because how else do you tick off Cloud presence in your business bingo?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

A fair point.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You might have too much money and wish to give a large portion of it to Jeff Bezos?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Installing WordPress through a traditional Apache server shared hosting account only requires one click, and you can host as many sites as you want for like $9 per month.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Been out of the game a long time. Is Wordpress still used heavily or are people shifting to other platforms? For all the easy power it had, it always required convincing to do what it wasn't originally intended to do. Dunno if that's still the case but seems it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I had the same impression until recently. It's now evolved into a high end, professional content management system and a ton of very high traffic sites use it. Wired runs on WordPress. Here are some other sites

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah, it's used extensively. It's far and away the most popular CMS.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Last time I tried aws, took me like four hours to figure that I had to borrow another IP address (different than the ip I received when created the instance) in order point it at my domain. Took me a long time find that option in the menu too

Edit:added cohesion and some punctuation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The way it's written fits very well with the madness that's AWS, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry,I had just waken up and my lemmy app (jerboa) is terrible when erasing words..got some punctuation erased.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

This is difficult to read.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why would you need autoscaling for the bastion server?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Autoscaling isn't only used the grow the number of servers under load, but also to guarantee availability of a fixed number. If the max is set to 1, the bastion host is protected against hardware failure, zone outages, or just you screwing up. Accidentally killed your bastion host? No problem, within a few minutes autoscaling will have provisioned a new one and you're good to go again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just load up a Terraform template and all that is abstracted away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This guy ~~fucks~~ codes 😎

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Accurate XD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

From my personal experience, AWS is extremely powerful (especially on security and networking). If you cross the learning curve, and know automation or Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) then it's fast and easy to build almost any architecture.

But yes, it's overkill for a simple website or a simple setup (if one is not familiar with AWS).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just use webinoly baremetal and call it a day

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