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WordPress on Amazon EC2

Posted: December 23rd, 2008 | Author: James | Filed under: JamesConstable.co.uk, Web Development, Work | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments »

With a wee bit of time to spare over the Christmas period we took the opportunity to move our hosting infrastructure from an aging Fasthosts dedicated server to an Amazon EC2 instance.  All of our client sites are now up and running, as is my blog, which has also been freshly updated to WordPress 2.7.  Anyone who’s been here before may have noticed how much faster the site is on EC2 and the same can be said for all of the other sites running on it.

I’ll write more soon about our setup.

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3 Comments on “WordPress on Amazon EC2”

  1. 1 Danny said at 12:54 pm on March 16th, 2009:

    Have you posted a setup of your WordPress on EC2 yet? Any chance of getting a how to as well?

  2. 2 James said at 10:11 am on March 21st, 2009:

    Hi Danny,

    Setting up WordPress on EC2 is really no different to installing it on any other Linux server. What i am doing though is writing an easy to use ‘how to set up Ubuntu on EC2′ that covers the basics of getting a server up and running.

  3. 3 luca said at 8:45 pm on March 30th, 2009:

    Stunning… Impressive speed, I need to move my blog to it immediately… I now have dreamhost, but it sucks.

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