Migrating Wordpress from GCP to AWS

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MariaDB

The first step of the migration was to export the database, which was running locally in the GCP Compute Instance on MariaDB. To refresh my memory on the database details, I checked the wp-config.php file located in /var/www/html/wordpress, which had the following sections with the database name, username, and password:.

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2

Google Compute Engine

You may have noticed some changes to this site. Along with some style and color changes, I've updated the domain, and focused the pages on my technical blog. Originally this site started as an administrative page for the Minecraft servers I am hosting. I built the first Minecraft server in Google Cloud on a general Compute Engine instance, and was running this web page on a separate smaller instance. As the player count increased, I had to increase the resources on the VM to keep performance stable, but this quickly used up the free credits. I did a blog post about the cost and the steps I took to optimize things. Eventually I moved the Minecraft servers to my homelab, where I had more compute resources available that wouldn't incur a monthly cost. I did a detailed post about this as well.

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Google Cloud Platform

You may have noticed some changes to this site. Along with some style and color changes, I've updated the domain, and focused the pages on my technical blog. Originally this site started as an administrative page for the Minecraft servers I am hosting. I built the first Minecraft server in Google Cloud on a general Compute Engine instance, and was running this web page on a separate smaller instance. As the player count increased, I had to increase the resources on the VM to keep performance stable, but this quickly used up the free credits. I did a blog post about the cost and the steps I took to optimize things. Eventually I moved the Minecraft servers to my homelab, where I had more compute resources available that wouldn't incur a monthly cost. I did a detailed post about this as well.

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4

CloudFlare

I use CloudFlare for some of my DNS services, which also provides some caching and DDOS protection. If using Amazon Route 53, or another DNS provider, the domain names and IPs would need to be updated in your provider so they would resolve properly.

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5

Amazon VPC

Deciding how to set up the AWS Wordpress instance took quite a bit of thought. I had thought about using a more complex setup including an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance, a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), and serverless components like RDS (Relational Database Service) for the database, and S3 (Simple Storage Service) for file storage. Another way I had read about that could be challenging, was to set up Wordpress on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). I could also automate a lot of the setup using Terraform.

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6

Amazon S3

Deciding how to set up the AWS Wordpress instance took quite a bit of thought. I had thought about using a more complex setup including an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance, a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), and serverless components like RDS (Relational Database Service) for the database, and S3 (Simple Storage Service) for file storage. Another way I had read about that could be challenging, was to set up Wordpress on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). I could also automate a lot of the setup using Terraform.

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7

Amazon Route 53

I use CloudFlare for some of my DNS services, which also provides some caching and DDOS protection. If using Amazon Route 53, or another DNS provider, the domain names and IPs would need to be updated in your provider so they would resolve properly.

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Amazon RDS

Deciding how to set up the AWS Wordpress instance took quite a bit of thought. I had thought about using a more complex setup including an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance, a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), and serverless components like RDS (Relational Database Service) for the database, and S3 (Simple Storage Service) for file storage. Another way I had read about that could be challenging, was to set up Wordpress on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). I could also automate a lot of the setup using Terraform.

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9

Amazon Lightsail

I ended up going with the AWS Lightsail platform for a number of reasons:.

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10

Amazon EKS

Deciding how to set up the AWS Wordpress instance took quite a bit of thought. I had thought about using a more complex setup including an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance, a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), and serverless components like RDS (Relational Database Service) for the database, and S3 (Simple Storage Service) for file storage. Another way I had read about that could be challenging, was to set up Wordpress on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). I could also automate a lot of the setup using Terraform.

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Amazon EC2

Deciding how to set up the AWS Wordpress instance took quite a bit of thought. I had thought about using a more complex setup including an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance, a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), and serverless components like RDS (Relational Database Service) for the database, and S3 (Simple Storage Service) for file storage. Another way I had read about that could be challenging, was to set up Wordpress on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service). I could also automate a lot of the setup using Terraform.

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12

Amazon CloudFront

Lightsail has additional features such as CDN (Content Delivery Network) Distribution similar to Amazon CloudFront, and the option for Load Balancers or a managed database if needed. For the low traffic of my site, this will probably not be necessary for a long time.

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13

Amazon AWS

I've been focusing more on Amazon Web Services instead of Google Cloud Platform for my cloud experience recently, and last month was selected to join the AWS Community Builders program. One of the perks of the program is some additional free AWS credits, so I decided to take the opportunity to move this site to AWS to take advantage of using those up, as I seem to have an excess of them at this time. I'm sure most of the AWS credits will go towards experimentation and learning, but this is a consistent cost that they can be put towards as well.

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