Comments on: Set up free WordPress hosting using Amazon EC2 and Bitnami Cloud

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:14:50 +0000

In reply to akshay. Do you know the TTL (Time To Live) when you updated the DNS? It usually takes some time for the new IP to propagate, depending on the TTL setting.

By: akshay

akshay — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 10:14:59 +0000

Hi, MICHAEL
Actually I stuck on the last part of changing the name server for my domain to the bitnami + AWS, I booked my domain by 1on1 domain, when I tried to change the IP address with the DNS in 1on1 its not changing, please resolve what am I doing wrong.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:32:19 +0000

In reply to anand. Hi Anand – Sorry I seem to miss your comment. Of course you can migrate your current WordPress site to another host. There are multiple methods and WP plugins that would allow you to do this. For starter, you should check out UpdraftPlus. You can use it to make full backup of your current WP installation, copy the backup files, then restore it on a clean WP installation on your new server.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:24:08 +0000

In reply to miskkie. Based on AWS Free Usage Tier FAQs: 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services. Even let's say you only get 1GB outgoing limit, I still think that's quite a lot. If your blog/website is properly optimized and utilizes CDN, the combined HTML, CSS, JS size could be less than 200KB/page view. That's 5,000 page views per month. If you actually get 15GB bandwidth, then it's 75,000 page views per month or 2,500 per day. If you pass the included bandwidth, you only pay $0.09 per GB. At that point, I do not think you should be forcing yourself to use a free hosting as solution :)

By: miskkie

miskkie — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:58:50 +0000

The site really must be quite low traffic. AWS free tier is limited to 1gb/month outgoing bandwidth isn’t it?

By: anand

anand — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:51:29 +0000

Hi Michael,

I would like to know that if i can move my current website which is in shared hosting can we moved to AWS using the above method?
If so can you please let me know the instructions. Thank you very much for a helpful post.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:20:00 +0000

In reply to Adrian Haurat. Hello Adrian – In your scenario, it is probably better not to install WordPress as additional application when you are creating a new server on Bitnami. Its default stack already includes Git installed. You can check this under "Development Options". After the server is up and running, you can connect via SSH and pull the files from your repository. This is a bit off subject and personal preference, but I often feel it is quite difficult to keep your WordPress data consistent using repository once it goes live. It is easier to keep backups using a plugin such as UpdraftPlus or Duplicator. You can also use either of these plugins to migrate a site from one site to another quite easily.

By: Adrian Haurat

Adrian Haurat — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:42:51 +0000

Thanks for this informative post; it’s particularly helpful for someone who wants to start a new WordPress site from scratch on AWS. However, I have a WordPress site installation on my laptop. It’s set up as a git repository and I would like to push it to my new Bitnami AWS instance. I’m used to Ubuntu servers where I use git to pull the files onto the server and manually upload the database into MySQL, but this is my first time trying Bitnami. Is there a different process for getting my existing WordPress site set up on a Bitnami server?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:31:15 +0000

In reply to Dan. Hi Dan – You will be limited to only host one application/server using micro or small instance on EC2, which should be more than enough if you are hosting a small site or personal blog.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:20:27 +0000

With Bitnami’s free developer tier what software packages are there available?