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WordPress

Wordpress
Wordpress
WordPress

DevOps And Platforms hosts and maintains several multisite installations of WordPress along with a handful of single site installations and some non-Wordpress sites such as PhpMyAdmin and LAM for systems administration tasks all on a single auto-scaling LAMP stack. DevOps And Platforms maintains a fleet of 4 EC2 instances running inside of a VPC and spanning 2 AZs. All instances are members of an Application Load Balancer which makes use of CloudFront, Global Accelerator and WAF.

Instance launch templates are broken up into two separate groups (autoscaling pools) and deploy different types of instances into separate AZ’s. The two pools of instances provide resiliency by existing in multiple availability zones. Using t2 and t3 small spot EC2 instances allows for extraordinary cost savings, speed, and scalability. The server technology is Ubuntu Linux running Apache 2.4 with virtual hosts, several versions of PHP, and a combination of private certs and letsEncrypt along with a handful of other server technologies and modules.

Database services are provided via a self hosted copy of MySQL on Ubuntu running on a separate reserved small EC2 instance.

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Backup & Recovery

Backup & Recovery
Cloud Backup & Recovery Strategies

Cloud Backup & Recovery Strategies

Cloud Storage Types

Backup and recovery require a variety of strategies and methods depending on the system. There are databases to protect, filesystems in EFS and S3 to consider, virtual servers that need up to date images, and numerous repositories that contain the code for various web applications.

  • Protecting databases
  • Filesystems in EFS and S3
  • Scalable virtual servers
  • Repositories containing code for web applications