Complete Guide to Self-Hosted WordPress on AWS - TBD

Complete Guide to Self-Hosted WordPress on AWS is a hands-on, command-by-command manual for standing up a production-grade WordPress site on Amazon EC2 and running it the way a hosting provider would: hardened, monitored, backed up, and maintained. It is not a book about writing posts or picking a theme. It is about the infrastructure underneath - the AWS account, the network, the LAMP stack, the security layers, and the maintenance habits that separate a real production system from a tutorial project that breaks the first time something goes wrong. The book is self-contained. You will not be sent off to piece together five outdated blog posts and a stale AWS doc page to get a working answer. Every chapter builds on the last, using the same instance, the same domain, and the same working configuration.

What’s inside:

- Managed vs. Self-Hosted WordPress

- How to setup and provision EC2 instance in an isolated sandbox

- How to setup and install the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

- How to setup and install WordPress

- How to protect your website from attacks with Cloudflare

- How to monitor and search logs

- How to setup log rotation

- How to setup and configure Redis for performance

- How to version control your website and make backups

- How to restore a website from backups

and more...

Written for developers, freelancers, and consultants who set up WordPress for clients or their own business and want to stop paying for managed hosting or explaining downtime they can’t diagnose. It’s also a strong fit for a computer science student who wants a real, defensible production system on their resume instead of another

tutorial project. Basic command-line comfort is assumed; everything else - AWS, Linux administration, and WordPress internals - is taught from the ground up.

Siddharth Jain is a software developer with more than 15 years of experience in the tech industry across Microsoft, Uber, Johnson & Johnson and Cisco. He is also the author of Programming Hyperledger Fabric: Creating Enterprise Blockchain Applications. He runs his own WooCommerce powered web store at https://www.sidstick.com/.