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Ask HN: Digital Ocean vs. AWS for a Growing Wordpress Site

1 pointsby dhimantover 9 years ago
I run a website that is growing in traffic and as of this month will clock 1.5 million monthly hits. I am now starting to face a few downtimes with my DO droplet (2 GB RAM, 2 CPU). Would you recommend that I now move to AWS or should I continue with a larger instance on DO and save money? Don't have indepth knowledge about setting these things up, have a friend who helps me out so would prefer something that really has very minimal downtime or issue-fixing. Thanks!

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getdavidhigginsover 9 years ago
Is the blog run from the raw IP address? I wrote an article about why you should proxy a blog through a CDN: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.higg.im&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;10&#x2F;why-i-run-this-blog-on-maxcdn&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.higg.im&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;10&#x2F;why-i-run-this-blog-on-maxcdn...</a><p>I since moved away from roll-you-own WP solutions as it&#x27;s a devops nightmare, and tricky to get right, unless you pay someone to do it for you.<p>You should probably try to get your domain off the apex too:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.higg.im&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;10&#x2F;getting-jque-re-off-the-apex&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.higg.im&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;10&#x2F;getting-jque-re-off-the-apex&#x2F;</a>