How To Host WordPress on Amazon Web Services? (Step-By-Step)
Do you expect more robust WordPress hosting for your business blog or website?
Earlier, we have shown you how to host a WordPress blog on Google Cloud. Google Cloud is recommended hosting for blogs that need more power, security, and resources.
Google Cloud is just one of those powerful WordPress cloud hosting services. There are so many others available.
And guess what?
This post will show you one of those powerful cloud hosting in the industry – AWS (Amazon Web Services).
You will see how you can host WordPress on Amazon Web Services and start working on it from this post!
Cloudways
Cloudways is the same cloud hosting company used by BlogHeist.
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Cloudways currently provides hosting on servers like:
- Digital Ocean
- Linode
- Vultr
- AWS
- Google Cloud
Etc.
You can deploy websites on multiple cloud servers from a single account dashboard and manage them. Thankfully, Cloudways comes with an easy-to-use panel.
The team got custom CDN, one-click backups, secured frameworks, etc. If you need to learn more about the platform, please check out our Cloudways review.
Related Read: How To Generate Site Speed Reports Using MonsterInsights
Why Choose Amazon Web Services Through Cloudways?
As I mentioned, AWS is one of the top cloud platforms. But hosting WordPress directly on AWS is not recommended for newbies. The thing is straightforward.
WordPress is installed and configured on Amazon web services using Command Line Interface (CLI).
You might want to search online or get help from the Amazon support team for hosting your WordPress blog.
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On the other hand, Cloudways offers a simple user interface. From there, you can deploy any application to your server without using any Linux commands.
Got the point?
Below, we will show how easy it will be to host a blog on Amazon and manage it.
How To Host WordPress On Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
This section will show you how to host WordPress on Amazon Web Services.
If you need to start a WordPress blog in AWS, this is the best and most straightforward guide you can get.
Total Time: 12 minutes
Go to Cloudways
The first thing you need to do is go to Cloudways.
Create a Free Account
You need to sign up for a free account there. For our users, Cloudways will be giving a special discount. All you need to do is, check out our Cloudways promo code. And register on the website. You might want to consider verifying your email address and phone number for activating your Cloudways account.
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Launch your first server.
And once you get logged in to the account, you will be redirected to the dashboard. As you know, we have just signed up on the platform and don’t have any servers configured.
So, let’s move forward and create our first server. Click on the Launch button.
Select WordPress CMS
The next thing you need to do is, configure your server. Cloudways offers many applications such as WooCommerce, Magento, PHP, Drupal, Opencart, etc.
And since we are creating a WordPress blog, we probably need to choose the WordPress CMS on the screen.
Choosing the latest version is recommended. But if you want an outdated version, that’s fine too.
By logging in to your WordPress admin area and going to the WordPress updates page, you can easily update every plugin, theme, and core.
Choose AWS
Name your application and server. Assign this application to any project.
In the next step, you need to choose the cloud server for your application.
From the list, choose AWS.
Configure server size
Then, configure the resource usage, such as the server size.
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Configure storage
You can add a custom amount of disk space to your WordPress blog. When starting your blog, choose lesser bandwidth usage, disk space, and RAM. As your website grows, you can add more resources to your application – Through your Cloudways dashboard.
Choose a server location
And the next thing we need to do is choose a Datacenter(DC). If you plan to use a CDN like Cloudflare or MaxCDN, you could select any DC. The CDN provider will serve website content from the visitor’s closest location.
So, your website files will get loaded quicker, and you can have a speed-optimized website. If you are not planning to use a CDN, you must choose a DC carefully.
Let’s say that you are targeting visitors from the USA. Then your DC should be in the USA. So, when a visitor from the USA visits your website, he will get optimized performance and faster page loads.
Open Applications
Once your server got installed, click on the applications from the top bar.
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Open configuration wizard
Choose the application. And you will be redirected to the server configuration wizard.
Copy important data from there
You can see your WordPress blog URL, username, password, and MySQL database credentials on that page. If you need more server-side customizations, check the server management section.
Configure domain name
Still, you are running in a staging environment. You could test their services free for the first three days. And then, you might want to pay your invoices to properly work your website.
You could change your primary domain name from the domain management section and add additional domains to the AWS server.
Estimated Cost: 36.51 USD
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This is how you can host WordPress on AWS. As we configured, this application is running on Amazon Web Services!
Like some managed WordPress hosting companies, AWS won’t restrict any WordPress plugins on their server. Hosting companies like WP Engine will permanently ban high CPU usage plugins like YARPP on their servers.
Here, on Amazon, you are free to test every plugin you wish!
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Lana Horton says
Hi Christina, You have made this hosting tutorial look really so easy. Thanks for sharing!
Nirmal Kumar says
Hey Lana,
Thanks for leaving your comment. Which web hosting do you prefer?