Although it’s overkill for a WordPress blog (I can host it for much cheaper unless I’m expecting crazy traffic), and personally I’m not a fan of Windows servers, I must say it’s impressive how quickly you can go from zero to live WordPress site on a full-access server this way.
Cloud is buzzword now, but for 99% of Wordpress site owners $80 per month far more than their WTP (willingness to pay).
In fact for that money you can rent a whole dedicated server and host there 100 Wordpress blogs.
I know about scalability, uptime etc of cloud s, but people love Wordpress for low costs of development and lot of free stuff after all.
Was going to ask same question. Not to downplay the advantages of a cloud hosting system, I actually use one, but how do you scale Wordpress? Multiple db’s? Then how would you split the data?
Interesting article…
I really am glad to see more step-by-step stuff.
Some other useful info:
You can get a linux “cloud” @ RackSpace Cloud that will run the majority of everyones WP blog for <$20/month, they also have resizing if you do need to make it bigger.
$80/mo for most people is expensive for their blog, and well it’s windows you used too…
Interesting write up. How does the scaling work for Wordpress? Can additional EC2 instances be started to share the load somehow, or does the blog only ever run on one instance?
The other issue is that the local storage of EC2 does not persist if the instance goes down. Amazon offers EBS for data that needs to persist, but it’s not used by default. So any data stored only on EC2 would be lost.
Loved this article, and am intrigued by the possibilities. But one question (for a Microsoft guy, after all): how does Amazon’s cloud service compare to Windows Azure? Is Azure pricier? Harder to set up? Offers less? . . . or is it just as good?
