Category: Website
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EC2 WordPress Behind CloudFront Part 3
There’s 2 more parts that’s really important to using a t3.micro instance with 20GB of disk space, and that’s to use swap memory, and to reduce the number of php processes. Since t3.micro only has 1GB of RAM, we want to give it 4GB of swap memory. The swap memory will be much slower since…
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EC2 WordPress Behind CloudFront Part 2
In the last post about my WordPress server configurations, I had the static pages working, but I couldn’t get dynamic pages working, and I had to use the EC2 public domain directly instead of the one configured in Route53 to use the dynamic pages. The main issue was that the CSS for the admin wouldn’t…
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EC2 WordPress Behind CloudFront
Running your own WordPress server with all sorts of shiny Plugins you can install seemed cool and fun to explore. Unfortunately running your WordPress server with WooCommerce behind a Load Balancer turned out to be more costly than expected. WooCommerce itself requires t2.large instance of EC2, which costs over $60 per month. I’ve tried using…
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WordPress Page Cache
When this WordPress website was just some text and images, I ignored the warnings of there not being a cache for static pages. I talked about moving images to an S3 bucket which mitigated the slowness that I was experiencing. However, once I added the WooCommerce plugin to add a merch shop for this weksite,…
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WordPress Server Space
This website, reikaxubia.com, had been crashing every week or two since I launched it, and I was baffle as to why. Every time it crashed, I would just restart the server, and it would come back up again. I had followed the same steps to host WordPress servers in the past and had never ran…