Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays
by Patrick-STH on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:54PM
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Totally correct. I mention that a bit in the video as well. Also - I do not view this as an AWS v. Colo. We use AWS for some services as well so it is a specific part of the workload we run (not just WP) that is in our hosting cluster.
And again, this is a fraction of what we have in data cetners due to the labs and such.
Wordpress hosting is expensive and overkill to do on AWS if you do it traditionalally.
Add simply static or a similar plugin, whip up a script to upload the static HTML to S3, set up Cloudfront with good cache, and you're done. Your site is faster, more secure, cheaper and can easily run on a t3.micro for peanuts.
Only gotcha is comments, but it's a solved problem ( disqus or any of the alternatives) and similar.
I've mentioned before[0] that AWS too expensive and overkill for Wordpress sites (especially simpler non-ecommerce ones). I don't think this conclusion is controversial. Simpler hosting requirements is why Patrick only has to spend 4 hours of labor in 1 year to upgrade some hardware.
It's when you need the higher-level value-added services of AWS services (Dynamo, Redshift, region failover, etc) that the comparison becomes more complicated.
E.g. Companies with mission-critical transactional websites or mobile backends are more complex and they need agility to add/change the infrastructure landscape in response to unknown workloads. They don't have the money (or expertise) to code an in-house version of AWS services portfolio. E.g.[1]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797166
[1] https://www.cbronline.com/news/guardian-aws-migration
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