5 Reasons to Host WordPress at AWS

Controlling all aspects of your WordPress hosting environment is the key to maintaining maximum performance at the best possible price.

WordPress is the king of web content management systems with many digital agencies and web-developers using the system to build and host their customers' websites (about 45% of all sites globally). With the great range of WordPress plugins now available these websites often include important interactive and e-commerce capabilities making them more business critical than ever. We often see developers and their clients frustrated with the poor performance of restrictive "off the shelf" WordPress hosting solutions currently available.

Here are 5 reasons why hosting WordPress at AWS is a better option;

1. Access and control

Having full control over the overall web-hosting environment at AWS means you will have all the options and solutions available to you, no matter the challenge.

2. Reliability and scalability

Use the great range of AWS cloud services including auto-scalers/load-balancers, Elastic File Store, RDS and more to build a multi-tier architecture that ensures websites are highly available 24/7.

3. Disaster recovery

Take control of your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with AWS backups, highly available data services and AWS availability zones.

4. Flexibility

Adapt your hosting environment to suit your evolving business objectives with the full range of tools available at AWS including bandwidth, disk space/speed and Linux distribution options.

5. Personalised service

Working with Habitat3 to manage your cloud infrastructure means working with specialists in an ongoing way to develop and implement solutions to ensure your web hosting environment is always optimised.

We regularly migrate WordPress hosting environments into AWS with great success. Our clients love being in full control of their sites and the ability to make the back-end changes needed to achieve their goals.

“In spite of the fact it wasn’t an off-the-shelf solution, the pricing was extremely competitive. There were no alternatives for our very specific situation and no one we would have felt more confident working with.”