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Tag: Amazon Lightsail

Configuring and using monitoring and notifications in Amazon Lightsail

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman We recently announced the release of resource monitoring, alarms, and notifications for Amazon Lightsail. This new feature allows you to set alarm thresholds on your Lightsail instances, databases, and load balancers. When those alarm thresholds are breached, you can be […]

Deploying a highly available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 4: Increasing performance and scalability with a Lightsail load balancer

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman This is the final post in a series about getting a highly available WordPress site up and running on Amazon Lightsail. For reference, the other blog posts are: Implementing a highly available Lightsail database with WordPress Using Amazon S3 with […]

Deploying a Highly available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 3: Increasing security and performance using Amazon CloudFront

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman The previous posts in this series (Implementing a highly available Lightsail database with WordPress and Using Amazon S3 with WordPress to securely deliver media files), showed how to build a WordPress site and configure it to use Amazon S3 to serve […]

Deploying a highly available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 2: Using Amazon S3 with WordPress to securely deliver media files

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman Introduction This is the second in a series of blog posts on how to build a highly-available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail. If you’ve not read the first post in the series, Implementing a highly available Lightsail database, you will […]

Deploying a highly available WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail, Part 1: Implementing a highly available Lightsail database with WordPress

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcoleman This post walks you through what to consider when architecting a scalable, redundant WordPress site. It discusses how WordPress stores such elements as user accounts, posts, settings, media, and themes, and how to configure WordPress to work with a standalone […]

Building a pocket platform-as-a-service with Amazon Lightsail

This post was written by Robert Zhu, a principal technical evangelist at AWS and a member of the GraphQL Working Group.  When you start a new web-based project, you need lightweight infrastructure that addresses your immediate needs. For my projects, I prioritize simplicity, flexibility, value, and on-demand capacity, and find myself quickly needing the following […]

Deploying an Nginx-based HTTP/HTTPS load balancer with Amazon Lightsail

This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail In this post, I discuss how to configure a load balancer to route web traffic for Amazon Lightsail using NGINX. I define load balancers and explain their value. Then, I briefly weigh the pros and cons of self-hosted load balancers against Lightsail’s managed load […]