Easy peasy

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.

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

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

More good news: There are lots of simpler hosts that are more deserving of your money than Jeff Bezos.
- Name and shame. I'd love go start a new home project without bezobucks limiting what I can afford.
- Like Azure? :p
Shouln't AWS do this?
- In theory yes, and I've had a few zealous support engineers there do their absolute damn best to fix cloudformation infra issues. But there's only so much they can do because the template was probably written by a 3rd party vendor (if it was how you can set up said vendor solution using AWS native features) or a consultant who fucked off to other projects.

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.

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.
- 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.

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

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.

Try DO AppEngine and Hugo, free static site, and image hosting w CDN for .. $5 a month for the bucket.

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: && && & &

Do you ever make install for minutes just to have it crash at the end because you missed a completely random C dependency?
- 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
- sobs uncontrollably
  Uh...I mean...of course not
- No, I use Portage
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
- 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

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/

But then, why use AWS?
- Because how else do you tick off Cloud presence in your business bingo?
- You might have too much money and wish to give a large portion of it to Jeff Bezos?
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.

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.

Please use punctuation.
- The way it's written fits very well with the madness that's AWS, though.
- Sorry,I had just waken up and my lemmy app (jerboa) is terrible when erasing words..got some punctuation erased.
This is difficult to read.

Why would you need autoscaling for the bastion server?

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.

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).

Just use webinoly baremetal and call it a day

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