Host a Wordpress Website on AWS using Amazon Lightsail (For Only $3.50 a month!)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 2. 10. 2020
- In this video I show you how to register for a domain name, and set up a wordpress website using AWS for only $3.50 a month! (+ domain registration costs). This is a STEP BY STEP tutorial where I show you exactly how to set this up.
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01:06 Registering your Website Domain on AWS with Route53
05:42 Creating your AWS Lightsail Wordpress Instance
11:14 Getting our Lightsail Wordpress Dashboard Password
16:33 Setting up a Lightsail Static IP Address
18:14 Setting up your DNS to point your Lightsail Static IP to your Custom Domain
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3years later, this tutorial is still beneficial. Thanks for creating such a valuable video
1- Create a Domaine Name
2 - Create a wordpress instance
3- Create a static IP adress
4- Create a record via Route 53
Domain, address, Nobraini. If you're going to summarize, try to spell.
@@reprogrammingmind I let genius like you to do it instead
Basically a very similar procedure to serve a static website. He has a newer video where he explains it
Great video. I had my website up and running investing $20, and of corse watching this video, my website was live in 40 mins
Great to hear Hareesh!
what are the interest payments on your $20?
Good Job Bros :))
Thanks a lot for this video. It is very practical and easy to follow. I created my web by following this.
you just saved my life, literally. I had the wrong "Name servers" after deleting my default hosted zone, and not understanding why I couldn't reach my website. Thanks!!!!!!
You're very welcome!
Literally? How would staying on the same hosting plan be a threat to your mortality?
Thank you so much! I've learned so much and can't wait to help my mum's small business!
You're very welcome and I'm glad this helped!
The Way you explained - Just Great..!!
Thanks Naresh! Glad you enjoyed it.
I appreciate your video a lot. I am struggle on the last part for a while.....I have searched a lot and it is better to learn through visual way. Thank you again.
You're very welcome Yuying!
Thank you Daniel, concise explanation and helpful.
You're very welcome !
Thanks for this video. Was super simple to follow.
You're very welcome Bryan!
quality information man, Thank you for these great videos
You're very welcome Osama!
great detailed tutorial. well done
You're very welcome Ayoub!
Can you please make a video on adding SSL on WordPress website?
Yes this covered all except SSL
i guess im asking the wrong place but does anybody know a tool to get back into an instagram account??
I was stupid forgot my login password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me.
@@maddenhuxley2390 Lol nice try.
Change name server with cloudfare
You can add SSL in the instance, I think wordpress has a plugin to manage SSL, or you can do it manually too.
This tutorial was very helpful. Thank you very much sir.
You are most welcome!
Very Helpful. Thank you
Thanks Saukhin, you're very welcome!
You are just awesome awesome awesome, you did everything so well đđ
Very helpful. Thank you.
Very correct information to understand!
Thanks Mirza! Glad you enjoyed.
Great video, covered everything in detail, with some additional tips. My only suggestion is, and I am guilty as well, is speaking to quickly towards the end at a few specific points of excitement! Thank you sir!! đŻđđ
Great tutorial, thank you
I am back for a refresher course, helping my daughter set up a site
Welcome back Gary, hope the UI hasn't changed too much!
Just saw this again...well worth it. Wish I could give it another like!
Thank you!
@@BeABetterDev can you explain the same concept with Amazon EC2 with RDS as backend.
Thank you so much this was very helpful
Glad it was helpful Nadia!
Excellent. Thank you
This is great. Thanks.
You're very welcome Shey!
Great video sir
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
Good video! We now have AWS WorkMail. Maybe this video already deserves an update!
great video
good job!
thanks man its really help
You're very welcome Ahmed!
helpful video
great video. thanks
You're very welcome Sor!
thank you, great job
You're very welcome!
Useful THank You
Absolutely briliant, dear....similar kind of small website hosting projects I was looking for. Request if u can upload more use cases like hosting a shopping website, social media website, banking or further more dating all different kind of websites/apps that we access in our daily life. Basically I am looking for use cases small, medium & large projects, on which I can do Hands-On training for practise purpose , so as to demonstarte my skills in interviews. Will be a great favor if you can do so
Do you also have a tutorial of setting up a regular cpanel or control panel instance and then doing a manual wordpress install or a complete wordpress and database migration from another host?
Great video down here,thanx mate, can you talk about the speeds on lightsail for SEO which is the best option of the lightsail optons?
You made a mistake in adding Cname record, Cname record will not point to the IP, rather the domain name without www.
Rest was good.. Thanks!
Awesome tutorials +++++++++++++++++++ đ
Name servers stuff is really helpful
Glad I could help Tom!
Hello. Thank you for your Tutorial! To be honest I Dont know the benefits of aws in comparsion to other hosters. Or is it just a Point of Security?
20:19 Thank god you included that in your video.
You are good
Great video, thanls a lot. The next step is how to attach HTTPS certificate to this site?
Hey, thanks for the great tutorial. A quick question: how do we provide environment variables to a Lightsail instance?
Hi sailor, I don't have experience with this directly but found this article that may be helpful: stackoverflow.com/questions/44034454/how-to-add-environment-variables-in-bitnami-virtual-machine-using-node-js
Thanks for tuto. How do you install ssl on the domain after being created ??
This is an amazing video thank you for this! One thing I do want to ask what if I already have a Wordpress site and I'm trying to move it from Bluehost to AWS?
Hi Bala,
I'm sure this is possible, but may require some work on your part. There may be some tutorials out there, I found this one which looks promising: thetravellingsquid.com/2019/05/24/wordpress-site-from-bluehost-to-amazon-lightsail/
Hope this helps!
Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing. Why can't we just create an A record with the existing domain registrar instead of transferring the domain to AWS? Is it mandatory? And do you know if there is any user friendly control panel available for wordpress for the AWS?
it's not mandatory. he's just using route 53 because he used it to register his domain
Great Tutorials! Thanks!
My Question: If my WordPress website user increases significantly fast. Can the system handle huge amounts of user requests? Can I use the benefit of AWS auto-expand products, such as EC2 solve the concern when my business needed it? Create an instance when user requestion reaching the bottleneck? Reduce computer power when some instances are idle? Can I put WordPress into a container such as a docker?
Hey Jerry, you can certainly add more compute nodes + a load balancer to scale horizontally to meet more customer traffic. Alternatively, you can also choose to upgrade the power of your existing compute nodes. Either way, Lightsail offers mechanisms so your website can scale as your customer base grows.
You can potentially put your wordpress setup in a docker container and have a database hosting your content separately. However this is a lot of work to setup and maintain. I like lightsail because it simplifies the approach and lets you worry more about your website content instead of configuration/scaling.
Hope this helps,
Daniel
If you want to be able to auto scale your site to meet demand you should do a full AWS production deployment. You'd need to include the following in your architecture: Application load balancer, auto scaling group, RDS (for a scalable database), and Amazon EFS (for a scalable file server). Without the file server, anytime you make a change to one instance you'll have to go into every other instance to make the same change. The cloud is about decoupling the layers of an application to avoid any single point of failure bringing down your application. This is the true power of AWS. I'd also recommend learning CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code) to automate the implementation and upgrading of your cloud infrastructure. Lightsail is really intended for developers and small deployments. I'm a former Cisco systems engineer and network architect but now I'm an AWS Solutions Architect focusing on cloud security. There's an AWS white paper on deploying a scalable Wordpress architecture in AWS. I hope this helps.
Hi thanks for this great tutorial, do you have a "part 2" in order to add SSL to my site? (based no this same method using route53, lightsail & wordpress.
Hi German,
I haven't put together that video yet - however I used a tool called 'LetsEncrypt' to make SSL happen. There's a wordpress plugin you can use + tutorial websites that are available online. Hope this helps!
Hi, I am new to AWS, can you pls suggest how I can start this. I created an instance in EC2 instead of light sail. So is it possible to remove the instance in EC2 and create in light sail. pls suggest!
Hi Remis,
You can definitely remove the EC2 and go ahead and create your website in Lightsail. This shouldn't be a problem at all!
Daniel
Still CNAME piece is not working, I got the static IP for wordpress but Route53 can't flow the request to the domain. I guess yours worked because of being cached on your browser. Would you explain last steps? Also lightsail added a new tab to add recordset to hosted zone which made more confusion why there are two places for managing dns
Great video - I have a query about static IP - I created a new Wordpress instance and I want to attach a previous static IP address to the new Wordpress instance. Can't seem to figure out how - help!
so for each individual website there will be a separate instance and separate cost of 3.50 ? unlike in shared hosting they allow us sometimes multiple sites (wp) within one hosting cost we way ?
What if you have several sites? Can I put them all in the $3.50 a month plan? Also, what's the best way top manage the sites? FTP?
I have the same question as well.
Awesome Thanks
Could you please guide me how can i connect Cloudfront CDN with my Lightsail Instance.
I just created CDN on Lightsail but it shows 502 Error.
Can we migrate the full e-commerce website along with the database From Hostgator shared hosting to AWS Lightsail or EC2? If yes then what is the best way to do that with minimum downtime.
you can use existing wordpress site duplicator plugins
Hello I have a problem, because After configuring the dns with the cname and the IP, when I put the domain in the browser I see the page but if I put the IP I also see the page. How do I make the IP redirect to the domain
Hi greicy.
The IP is the actual address of the computer on the network - not the domain. I don't believe it is possible to create a mapping that would result in going from ip -> domain.
Can I ask why you are trying to do this?
Hope this helps
Mighty brilliant video mate. Love and regards from India
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey thanks for posting this great tutorial. I have managed to install WP on Lightsaill, but now when i need to connect mail to my instance, many issue arise. Can you please explain how we can configure mailing for this instance since SMPT port has been blocked by AWS and i cant attach custom email here. What would be best practices related to mailing here ?
got any solutions?
@@shardoolask7226 I was having protonmail as a 3rd party mail client, which can't be used since they don't have SMPT configuration. So i have installed Lightsail + Amazon Workmail + SES, and it's working
Great work, can you share one with SSL and email as well.
Hi Jasu,
I'll work on adding a new video for SSL. In the meantime, here's how to set up Email: czcams.com/video/g3nDQ0-jxSU/video.html
Daniel
@@BeABetterDev Thank you so much bro
thanks for the video
I am curious when do they cut $3.50 from your card? I created the instance but no amount is deducted from my card
Hi Diwakar, I ended up getting charged after a month or so.
The first month free. I see it in the video.
Hi, great video I love it. But Iâm facing a problem. My domain and the static IP got crawled at the same time by search engine which is considered as duplicate content for google. Is there any way to redirect the IP? When someone visits ip it will redirect to my domain?
Good day I had a Wordpress website on lightsail free tier. I decided to stop the lightsail from running because I had not attached a domain name yet and I did not have an elastic IP, by the time I started the lightsail again, the IP had changed. Now I canât access the Wordpress admin because looks like everything has changed. What can I do?
Thanks for the tutorial, I want to create a website that sits on AWS and has several types of files available for HTTP and HTTPS file transfer to specific users. it should also upload files (put/push). it is a use case for my network throughput testing purposes. please can you help?
Also I'm very curious if a static IP would have been necessary as you probably just could couple
can you pls do a tutorial on how to host multiple wordpress websites on single ec2 instance using rds for database.
Hi Aditya, I will look into this subject for a future video. Thank you for watching.
@@BeABetterDev What @Aditya said! :-)
I figured it out just read documentation
make a video on enabling https on this LightSail instance
Awesome content.
What would be the steps to get HTTPS setup for this example?
Hi Patrick, I used Lets Encrypt to add SSL. More info here: letsencrypt.org/
@@BeABetterDev Thanks for shared! đ
a little correction in CNAME record type one has paste domain name instead of ip address.Then only www prefix will work
quick question, If I develop in the US instance, am I allowed to change the instance to a different country instance after development?
Hi thomas, I can't tell from the console if this is possible or not. However, you could always snapshot your instance and update it on the machine in the new region. Hope this helps.
@@BeABetterDev got it. thank you!
24:15 A CNAME can never point to an IP address. So that's not going to work. Also I'm very curious if a static IP would have been necessary as you probably just could couple the DNS record to your lightsail instance right away in Route53. That would only be useful for external DNS hosting.
Thanks for pointing this out! Yes I had the same suspicion of the static IP of the instance and whether the default ip could have been used instead. I couldn't find out online if the ip would change in case a hardware failure so assumed the static ip must solve for this problem.
@@BeABetterDev Great stuff!. coming to using static IP, Lightsail documentation says the following
"If you stop or restart your instance without first creating a static IP address, you will lose your IP address when your instance restarts."
so, using a static IP is wise.
8:35 1TB of _data transfer_ not storage. Your users may download a total of 1TB per month. More traffic will cost you more.
Thanks!
Do you know if AWS website hosting allows blacklist?
Thanks so much for this awesome video. If I may ask, can I migrate a site built on lightsail to an EC2 instance if the project workload eventually gets a lot bigger than what's not appropriate with lightsail?
Hi there,
Yes this is definitely possible! In fact, it is even supported directly in the Lightsail console. There is a workflow you can go through to export a snapshot and import it directly onto an EC2 instance. Check out this link aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/lightsail-export-linux-instance-ec2/
@@BeABetterDev This will definitely help, many thanks.
@@BeABetterDev I just copied the following statement from AWS instruction for the migration:
"IP addresses can't be transferred from Lightsail to Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 instances that are created from exported Lightsail instances have a different IP address."
How do we then resolve our already established static IP after migration since we won't obviously be able to move our static IP from lightsail over?
Can you make video for Google cloud for wordpress ?
Love your tutorial ....I am facing this issue "WordPress Address and Site Address fields greyed out in AWS LIGHTSAIL" ........Please help ? And I have also a questions that my when I am searching my website my domain associated website (with https)and IP wordpress website (with http) and both are one by one shown on google.....Can you tell me what are the drawbacks to shown static IP associated website in public ? How to prevent IP ASSOCIATED WEBSITE from google ?
Please do I have to transfer my domain before I can add my site to aws
Amazing tutorial, just one question though: how does one access the Wordpress folder via FTP? What credentials should be used?
You need to install an ftp server like vsftpd on your linux instance. You can find tutorials online.
@@metallizer_me yes! i hear filezillia is also great
any idea how to add SSL?
yeah it says it can't be reached not sure how I messed up might try and redo the whole process
Does this workpress-based lightsail instance include the database or do we need a second instance to allocate the posts data?
Hey Pablo,
It includes the MySQL database that stores all your website content!
Hope this helps
@@BeABetterDev Where is the MySql DB located? is it on RDS? or ? And can you customize that DB?
Are there any benefits to using Light sail instead of creating an EC2 instance with WP? when would I choose one over the other?
Its much more simple. Just like 01 click đ.
In my opinion the Price is cheaper than many other Hosting/VPS providers such as: Vultr....
I was hoping you could hep me figure out what I did wrong during this that I can't login to wp-admin? I've tried searcing Google and have been going crazy trying to login?
This is prob a basic question but can u build a website than add the features of aws on to it
If I registered a domain, can I rename it afterwords if the new name is available?
Hi Khaled, unfortunately you can't. You would need to re-register for the new name and pay the associated cost.
Dont Forget to block your ssh port once everything is setup.
how d i do that
anyone know how to scale up instance after the instance has been created?
Hey alex, check out this video I made on exactly that: czcams.com/video/DxRbfSUZPTo/video.html
can I host multiple wordpress blueprints on a single instance?
Hi there,
This isn't a feature that is supported by Lightsail unfortunately.
@@BeABetterDev wrong
Dear friends , I have 2 broblemes with IP address I can't access and how I can atribute ssl serctificat to my site
what was the longest time you guys had to wait to get your site running on a domain name? just so I would know, if I done something incorrectly so I can try to troubleshoot the problems if there are any
Hi Aurimas,
If you mean DNS resolution, its usually pretty quick. I'd say if it hasn't resolved to your website within 30 minutes or so there may be a problem with your setup.
@@BeABetterDev hi my friend, I emailed you. can you get back to me? Cheers
Would I be able to horizontally and vertically scale my lightsail server?
I heard that you can horizontally scale on lightsail but vertically it looks like the price is pretty set in stone and there's no scaling up and down based on traffic in the vertical direction.
Hi Alex, yes this seems to be the case. You can add horizontal scaling I believe up to 5 instances. However vertical scaling seems to be a user-initiated action and not possible from cloudwatch alarms. Hope this helps.
Thanks.... Very helpful walk-through. Please consider doing one for the WordPress Multisite and Migrating a website from GoDaddy. CZcams has them, but nowhere near as clear as your video. Like and subscribed---I have a lot to learn.
AWS has workmail service.
Thanks Can! I realized this shortly after this video, and made a whole followup on Workmail!
how about installing an ssl for your domain
I need an SSL certificate for my Wordpress site is this possible?
It is! Check out this tutorial: docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/generate-install-lets-encrypt-ssl/ - its the same one I used when originally setting up my website.
Hope this helps.
Hi, is there any charge for using IP address from AWS to host our website?
Hey Abiraj,
Check out the documentation here: aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/
"Also referred to as a bundle, a Lightsail plan includes a virtual private server with a fixed amount of memory (RAM) and compute (vCPUs), SSD-based storage (disks), and a data transfer allowance. Lightsail plans also offer static IP addresses (5 per account) and DNS management (3 domain zones per account). Lightsail plans are charged on an hourly, on-demand basis, so you only pay for a plan when you're using it."
Static IP addresses are free up to a limit of 5 per account.
hope this helped!
Hi, how do you remove the bitnami logo at the bottom right corner?
Hi Nazim, you can remove the logo by following this post: lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-remove-bitnami-banner
Hope this helps. Let me know if it doesn't work.
@@BeABetterDev thank you
Thank you for the Tutorial. I might transfer my website from another webhost to AWS lightsail. Would you happen to know if the $3.5 package is only for one website or you can use multiple website and domains. I have fairly two small websites and it will greatly help if I can host them with the cheapest plan. Thank you.
Hi there,
I'm not aware of any way to host multiple wordpress sites on one machine using Lightsail :(
@@BeABetterDev Iâll check it out and see if itâs possible. Thank you for the reply.
There's a Wordpress multisite service and it seams that the price is 3.5 dollars month... as multisite you mean different domains and layouts right?
how many domains could i point to an instance?