https://www.bitservices.io/categories/wordpress/ Recent content in Wordpress on Business Information Technology Services Hugo -- gohugo.io en BITServices Ltd Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bitservices.io/projects/foodfriends/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bitservices.io/projects/foodfriends/ <p><img src="https://www.bitservices.io/img/foodfriends/logo.png" loading="lazy" alt="FoodFriends" ></p> <p>A small project carried out for a family member.</p> <h1 id="the-problem">The Problem </h1><p>FoodFriends have a small <a class="link" href="https://wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Wordpress</a> website that was hosted with a traditional hosting provider. The provider, unfortunately had crippling limits such as only 50MiB of disk for website media. FoodFriends required that website stayed on the <a class="link" href="https://wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Wordpress</a> platform.</p> <h1 id="the-solution">The Solution </h1><p>The website was moved to <a class="link" href="https://aws.amazon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Amazon Web Services</a>.</p> <p>To remove future support costs and time, the supporting infrastructure was automated with Hashicorp <a class="link" href="https://terraform.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Terraform</a>. The installation and configuration of software fully automated with <a class="link" href="https://www.ansible.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Ansible</a> - even down to the renewal of the TLS certificate!</p> <p>By using Amazon <a class="link" href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >S3</a> backups are automatically taken and rotated daily. Restoration of data is managed by the <a class="link" href="https://www.ansible.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Ansible</a> playbooks meaning the entire infrastructure can be built from nothing with all data restored in just minutes.</p> <h1 id="the-result">The Result </h1><p>There is now gigabytes of available diskspace for media. As <a class="link" href="https://aws.amazon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Amazon Web Services</a> is an enterprise grade platform capable of hosting even the most busiest of e-commerce websites the performance of the FoodFriends website has increased dramatically.</p> <p>Having TLS configured correctly and being made mandatory the FoodFriends website has had its ranking increased on <a class="link" href="https://www.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Google</a>.</p> <p>The current cost of hosting the infrastructure is approximately $1 a month for a couple of <a class="link" href="https://aws.amazon.com/route53/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >Route53</a> zones. Once the free-tier expires, the overall cost will still be <strong>only a third</strong> of what it was with the previous host.</p> <!-- raw HTML omitted -->