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Ask HN: Digital Ocean vs. AWS for a Growing Wordpress Site
1 point by dhimant on Aug 31, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I run a website that is growing in traffic and as of this month will clock 1.5 million monthly hits. I am now starting to face a few downtimes with my DO droplet (2 GB RAM, 2 CPU). Would you recommend that I now move to AWS or should I continue with a larger instance on DO and save money? Don't have indepth knowledge about setting these things up, have a friend who helps me out so would prefer something that really has very minimal downtime or issue-fixing. Thanks!


Is the blog run from the raw IP address? I wrote an article about why you should proxy a blog through a CDN: http://blog.higg.im/2015/02/10/why-i-run-this-blog-on-maxcdn...

I since moved away from roll-you-own WP solutions as it's a devops nightmare, and tricky to get right, unless you pay someone to do it for you.

You should probably try to get your domain off the apex too:

http://blog.higg.im/2014/03/10/getting-jque-re-off-the-apex/




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