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by dadarepublic 2249 days ago
Holy smokes!

And I just did a WordPress demo site using AWS Lightsail for $3.50 USD per month (obv the lowest tier).

Took me less than an hour to get it all rolling.

Just check out the feature list: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/features/

There are some oddball finicky things about it (like not seeing the instance except in the Lightsail interface unless you manually fix or migrate it) but it was easy as pie.
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acomjean 2249 days ago
I set a wordpress using digital ocean . They had a template and make it pretty easy..

I used to use AWS when I was at a startup. this light sail seems similar to Digital Ocean's built in templates.

I appreciate the easy set up of the database and code and that it gives you a sane path to https.

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/wordpress

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ridruejo 2249 days ago
Both lightsail Wordpress and this template are provided by Bitnami :) Different use cases
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