Comments on: WordPress on Amazon RDS

By: S3 Explorer review | Ring Of Blogs

S3 Explorer review | Ring Of Blogs — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:03:02 +0000

[...] S3 Explorer review Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet Box WordPress PluginI have been using Amazon web services for some time now. I have started with Amazon Simple Storage (S3) for off-loading WPMU theme files and later on started using it for daily backup of all my web sites and blogs. The backup is actually a small script that zips all my files and send them to Amazon S3 storage using the great Amazon S3 PHP class by Donovan Schonknecht. More recently I have tested Amazon Relational Database Service and managed to install WordPress and WordPress MU on it. [...]

By: Elad

Elad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:38:19 +0000

eyecool, just the db.

By: mark k.

mark k. — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:14:38 +0000

I don’t understand why rds should be attractive enough for anyone. with 80+$ per month you can get a decent VPS, and you will not have to worry about caching and optimizing your DB request. I think that with slicehost (my hosting provider) you get a 1GB RAM VPS for 70$.

The only advantage I can see is that you don’t need to split the DB across several machines for large mu site. But for how many people this is going to be important enough?

By: eyecool

eyecool — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:15:08 +0000

That’s great! Are you using Amazon to host the entire MU deployment, files and all? Or just the DB?

By: untell.com

untell.com — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:28:45 +0000

WordPress on Amazon RDS | Ring Of Blogs…

Every WordPress blog must have a database to store all its data (posts, comments, settings and so on). WordPress uses the MySQL database. Usually the database…