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Easy way to host WordPress sites on Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud

Here are the opinions from the experts:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/oracle-cloud-recommended-way-to-launch-a-wordpress-instance/?view=all#post-14373644

https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/comment/16793635#Comment_16793635

As mentioned in the above Oracle Communities thread: There is also a single compute instance micro-deployment if the reference architecture is too resource intensive for your current needs: https://github.com/oracle-quickstart/oci-arch-wordpress-mds/tree/master/micro-deployment

I try with the above as I intend to figure out the easiest and the fastest way to launch a WordPress website on Oracle Cloud.
WordPress hosting on Oracle Cloud
The field values are filled by default, suffice for this demo. Just need to click Next.

 

Set username and password for accessing WordPress admin dashboard and click Next.

 

Oracle Cloud WordPress stack
Just tick RUN APPLY and then click Next.
Oracle Cloud WordPress stack
The process will take few minutes.

Oracle Cloud WordPress hosting
WordPress site is live. Need to connect the public IP (152.67.29.77) with the domain name. To have SSL installed in order to remove Not Secure status on browser, make use of free plugins like SSL Zen. which can be done from the WP admin dashboard.

 

IBM Partner World is now IBM Partner Plus with major changes

Blog, Brands, Cloud Computing/Startup Resource, IBM Cloud, News, Partner News, Web Development & Internet Marketing

Update: 4 Jan 2023

IBM PartnerPlus

Three tracks to grow with IBM PartnerWorld: Build, Service, and Resell

Similar to AWS, IBM too classifies partners under developers and consultants category. For developers, there is IBM PartnerWorld Build Track.

“As a member of IBM PartnerWorld, you can join the Build Track and unlock a variety of benefits including proactive reach out from the partner support desk, program welcome information and onboarding.”

To be precise, IBM PartnerWorld offers three tracks:

  • Build (developers)
  • Service (consultants)
  • Resell (comes close to consultants)

You can join all the three at the same time.

Amazon Lightsail: Additional static IP address creation and can they be adjusted against AWS credits

AWS, Plesk

Query raised to AWS Support:

Intend to create static IP. Five free already used. Need to know how to create additional static IP and their charges. Are these charges forfeited with my AWS credits?

Reply from AWS Support:

Thank you for reaching AWS Premium Support. I am Vishnu from Linux team and will be assisting you further with this case.

From the description, I understand that you would like to know how to create additional static IP addresses and their charges. Please feel free to correct me if I misunderstood your requirement in any way.

Kindly note that, there is no additional cost for increasing Static IP address limit. By default, all AWS accounts are limited to five Static IP addresses per Region, because public (IPv4) internet addresses are a scarce public resource. You can create a request directly from AWS console to increase the limit of Lightsail Static IP addresses in a region. Please use below link for the same.

https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home?#/case/create?issueType=service-limit-increase&limitType=service-code-lightsail

Here you need to specify the “Region” and the new static IP address limit value with a clear Use case description. Once the request is submitted, our internal teams will review it and reach you with a confirmation on the same. If you require our assistance for creating the request, we can also create the request on behalf of you. In that case, kindly share the region, new static IP address limit value and a clear Use case description so that we can reach our internal teams with the request on your behalf.

Plesk Obsidian on Ubuntu (Web Admin Edition SE – FREE): Lightsail performance appears better than EC2

AWS, AWS LightSail, Blog, Brands, EC2, Plesk, Web Development & Internet Marketing

Initially, launched a couple of instances on AWS Lightsail of Plesk Obsidian on Ubuntu (Web Admin Edition SE – FREE). The results were satisfactory. If there is an issue with the scarcity of memory resources manifesting in the slow loading of websites, you can upgrade. This is unlike on EC2 wherein you suddenly lose access to Plesk admin dashboard as well as WordPress admin dashboard.

When the 3 sites were of small sizes with less than 10 blog posts, I lose access apparently because of lack of free space.

The same outcome followed despite the content of the websites remaining the same while upgrading instance types from t3.small to t3a.medium and finally m5a.large in the course of few days.

To be fair, it is clearly mentioned in the catalog:

Note: Plesk runs smoothly on a t3.micro instance for not more than 3 websites or domains with a small load. Note: In case you need the full Plesk functionality and/or larger instance types and/or more available AWS regions, please refer to the commercial Plesk AMIs on the AWS Marketplace (Web Host Editions).

If you have AWS credits and do not intend to pay a subscription fee to Plesk, going with this same Plesk Obsidian on Ubuntu (Web Admin Edition SE – FREE) on Lightsail instead of EC2 works better by my experience.

WP Engine now available in AWS Marketplace

AWS, Blog, Brand (WordPress), Brands, Cloud Computing/Startup Resource, Partner News, Web Development & Internet Marketing, WordPress, WP Engine

Source: WPEngine newsletter dated 31 March 2021

Access WP Engine’s enterprise-level digital experiences through AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software and services listings that run on Amazon Web Services.

WP Engine Premier: The WordPress Digital Experience Platform

WP Engine is the world’s leading WordPress Technology Company trusted by more than 150K customers including brands like AMD, Marriott, Thomson Reuters and Volvo. More of the top 200 thousand Alexa-ranked sites are powered by WP Engine than any other provider. WP Engine’s multi-product portfolio enables agencies and brands to run their WordPress sites and applications.

WP Engine’s Premier product line allows customers to build, power and optimize highly performant, redundant and secure digital experiences on WordPress. Premier customers benefit from advanced, SOC-2 compliant security, performance analytics and WP Engine’s dedicated account management.

WP Engine is a Digital Customer Experience (DCX) competency partner with AWS.

View the product listing on AWS Marketplace here.

This is an addition to WPEngine’s Startup, Growth, Scale, and Custom WordPress managed WordPress hosting available through wpengine.com.

AWS EC2: Restoring snapshot of an instance after upgrading instance size

AWS

Issue faced with Plesk Obsidian

Hosted an EC2 instance on AWS EC2. Plan t3.micro. Unable to access Plesk dashboard since yesterday. Getting the message:

Reply received:

What happens with Plesk Obsidian is apparently if there is a memory/resource deficiency, you might be unable to access Plesk admin dashboard. Also, all live websites might no more live. In such cases, it is pertinent to have a snapshot in place so that after changing the instance sizing from Instance Type, a snapshot can be restored.

Ideally, even without a snapshot, one should be able to accomplish by first stopping the instance, then upgrading (like I tried to do from t3.micro to t3a.medium), and finally starting the instance. In my case, even after raising from t3.micro to t3a.medium, I could not access Plesk admin dashboard and associated websites were still not live. Since, I had a snapshot (taken few days back), I decided to replace EC2 instance with the snapshot, which was successful.

Query raised to AWS Support:

intend to restart the above instance after migrating one of its snapshot. Earlier, I was unable to access Plesk admin dashboard as there was a shortage of memory space. So, decided to relaunch with a snapshot. Could not figure out which one of the two is the snapshot of i-0cf7dc9918291c1b1. 1. snap-094c6b4b5c37228e8 2. snap-0ddc9e7371852d2fd So, help regarding figuring out the snapshot needed. After that, could not succeed in knowing how to proceed. Do I need to create Volume for the snapshot. A guidance such that I am able to restore the snapsot of instance will be highly appreciated. I have been able to change the instance size but struck since then. Instance ID(s): i-0cf7dc9918291c1b1.

Reply from AWS Support:

Hello, Greetings for the day!

Thank you for contacting AWS Premium Support. I’m Pranitha from the EC2 Linux team and I will be assisting you with the case today.

I understand that you are unable to figure out the correct snapshot for the instance i-0cf7dc9918291c1b1 and require guidance on restoring the instance from the snapshot. Please correct me if I have misunderstood your concern.

Firstly, I looked up your account and as you mentioned I could see the below two snapshots in us-east-1 region:

  1. snap-094c6b4b5c37228e8

  2. snap-0ddc9e7371852d2fd

Furthermore, both the above snapshots were created from the same volume vol-069e47f515eeaea13. However, currently I see that the volume vol-069e47f515eeaea13 is unattached and is in available state. Upon checking the cloudtrail history, I was able to confirm that this volume was previously attached to the concerned instance i-0cf7dc9918291c1b1.

Hence, I can confirm that both the above snapshots belong to the instance i-0cf7dc9918291c1b1. Both the above snapshots were created around the same time with the most recent one being “snap-0ddc9e7371852d2fd” created on Mon Mar 15 2021 11:21:21 GMT+0530 (IST).

Therefore, you may launch a new EC2 instance from snapshot “snap-0ddc9e7371852d2fd” of the volume. For this you would need to first create an AMI from the snapshot and launch an instance from this AMI. Please refer to the below AWS documentation for steps to achieve the same: [+]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami-ebs.html#creating-launching-ami-from-snapshot

Alternatively, as the volume “vol-069e47f515eeaea13” is in available state, you may also opt to create a new EC2 instance and attach the volume to it as a secondary volume. [+]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-attaching-volume.html

Either of these approaches would help you restore the data of the original instance on the newly launched instance.

I hope the above information helps. Incase you feel I have missed out on addressing your concern right, or if I can otherwise provide any additional assistance with regard to this matter, please do not hesitate to let me know, I’ll be happy to work ahead with you until everything is successfully addressed. Hope you have an amazing day ahead!

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