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WordPress

WordPress is the world’s most popular website theme and content management system. Powerful yet simple, everyone from students to global corporations use it to create a beautiful website, blog, or a user interface for your web app.

WordPress is free, open-source software. So you can also self-host it on your own Amazon EC2 instance (cloud server) without any software license fees. You get charged only for your own actual usage of AWS resources.

WordPress Install Requirements

An install of WordPress goes as follows:

Launch an EC2 instance with an operating system (mostly a Linux OS)
Setup (Apache/nginx) web server
Setup PHP with it’s web server module
Configure PHP correcty
Setup MySQL/MariaDB database server
Create a database on MySQL server
Download WordPress
Setup WordPress with the MySQL database
Set permissions on WordPress folders/directories

What if we told you you can do this in 5-15 minutes with just a selection and a click?

Launch the Bitnami WordPress AMI

Bitnami is a VMWare-owned organization that provides a catalog of curated server applications and development environments that can be installed with one click, either locally, in a VM, or in the cloud.

Bitnami apps work out of the box, with no dependency or compiling worries. Updates can be applied with no problems, but you may face the restriction of not being able to upgrade the stack such as PHP or MySQL versions.

We will use a Bitnami WordPress public AMI to spin-up an EC2 instance. All Bitnami WordPress AMIs are built on 64-bit Debian Linux, with a LAMP/LEMP technology stack and WordPress pre-installed.

Sign-in to your user account and locate the Bitnami WordPress option based on the (LAMP/LEMP) technology stack you prefer. If you are not sure just select the LEMP option.

Select the AWS region and associated AWS key, then hit the launch button. Your WordPress server will be ready to use in 5 minutes!

Launch WordPress on a clean Debian/Ubuntu AMI

Sign-in to your user account and locate the WordPress on LAMP technology stack offered by iWebz.

Select the AWS region and associated AWS key, then hit the launch button. We will be taking a few more minutes to install and configure WordPress and it’s dependencies after launching the base Debian/Ubuntu AMI.

In this case, your WordPress server will be ready to use in 15 minutes!

Thats all… you are done with installing WordPress on an Amazon EC2 instance!

Cloud Panel

CloudPanel is a free server control panel for deploying PHP apps, built for maximum performance and security in the cloud. With CloudPanel you can add domains, users, databases, and much more in no time.

CloudPanel is free, open-source software. So you can also self-host it on your own Amazon EC2 instance (cloud server) without any software license fees. You get charged only for your own actual usage of AWS resources.

The CloudPanel technology stack consists of:

Debian Linux OS, nginx web server, MySQL database server, php-fpm (LEMP stack)

Redis data store

Node.js JavaScript runtime

ProFTPD SFTP server

How long do you think you will take to install these softwares and then setup CloudPanel on them on AWS?

Let us see how long you will take using our one-click AMI launcher service!

Launch the official CloudPanel AMI

Once you sign-in, look for the CloudPanel EC2 launcher in the list of one-click launchers.

Choose the desired AWS region to deply to and the region-based AWS key, then hit the launch button next to it.

Thats all, you’re done with the install!

You can now access your CloudPanel controlled cloud server using a web browser. know more

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5 Minute WordPress Install on Amazon EC2 with Debian