Managed WordPress hosting on AWS: a proper architecture with a CDN in front, a managed database behind, autoscaling for the spikes, and someone watching it around the clock. We build it, migrate you onto it, harden it, and run it. Delivered by AWS-certified engineers.
Built to take a spike.
Managed hosting means more than a server with WordPress on it. These are the six pieces we build and then keep running, in plain language.
WordPress runs on EC2 or on ECS where containers suit the workload better, with the database moved onto RDS or Aurora MySQL instead of sharing the web server. Splitting the two is what lets each scale on its own, and it takes the database off the box most likely to fall over.
CloudFront caches pages and assets at the edge so most requests never reach your origin, and the media library moves to S3 so uploads are not sitting on an instance you might replace. Between them they take the majority of the load off the thing you pay per hour for.
The web tier scales out as load climbs and back in when it drops, so a feature in the press or a campaign landing does not take the site down, and a quiet week does not bill like a busy one. We size the headroom deliberately, because scaling takes minutes and a spike can take seconds.
Automated backups of the database and the file layer, retained to an agreed schedule. We also test restores, because a backup nobody has restored is a hope rather than a plan. You find out the backup works on a Tuesday afternoon with us, not during an incident.
Core, theme and plugin updates run on a cadence through staging first, with a backup taken and a rollback path ready before anything reaches production. Security patches move faster than feature updates. The point is that updates stop being the thing everyone avoids until something breaks.
Uptime and performance monitoring with alerts that reach a human, plus incident response around the clock. Ongoing operations run under our CloudOps retainer, which is the parent service for this: managed WordPress is one of the workloads it covers rather than a separate on-call rota.
WordPress is popular, which makes it a standing target. Most of what goes wrong is unglamorous: an old plugin, a wide open admin path, a server that can talk to more of the internet than it needs to.
AWS WAF in front to filter the obvious traffic, security groups that only allow what genuinely needs to talk, least-privilege IAM so a compromised component cannot reach the rest of the account, and TLS everywhere. This is our AWS security hardening work applied to a WordPress stack.
Watching for file changes you did not make is how a compromised plugin gets caught early, rather than when a search engine flags the site. Monitoring covers the WordPress file layer and the instance underneath it, with alerts that go somewhere a person reads.
The operating system, the PHP runtime and WordPress itself all need patching, and the gaps between them are where trouble collects. We set a cadence across all three and hold to it, so security updates land on a schedule instead of whenever somebody remembers.
AWS is not automatically the answer for WordPress. It is the right answer for a particular shape of site, and we would rather draw that line clearly than talk you into infrastructure you will resent paying for.
Cheap and simple, and genuinely adequate for a small site with steady traffic. The ceiling arrives as a slow site under load, noisy neighbours you cannot see, and no real control when something goes wrong.
For a straightforward site, a managed WordPress platform handles caching, updates and backups well, and costs less in money and attention than running your own infrastructure. If that describes you, take it.
AWS wins when traffic is high or spiky, when you need control over the stack, when the site sits alongside other AWS workloads, or when security and data residency rule shared hosting out.
Talk it through with usMost of this work is migration rather than a fresh build. The site already exists, it already has traffic, and the job is to move it without anyone noticing. Part of our wider AWS migration practice.
Themes, plugins and the uploads directory move across, with the media library offloaded to S3 as part of the same step rather than a later project. Heavy media libraries are usually what makes a migration long, so we size that first.
The WordPress database moves to a managed engine, which is where backups, failover and patching stop being your problem. We sync and re-sync so the final cutover copy is small, rather than moving everything during the window.
The new stack runs in parallel and gets tested properly before any traffic moves. Then TTLs come down ahead of time, DNS switches, and the old site stays available as a fallback until the new one has proven itself. A rollback exists at every step.
If your question is not here, ask it on the call. We would rather scope honestly than move a site that was fine where it was.
Bring your site, your traffic numbers and whatever is currently going wrong. If a managed WordPress platform would serve you better, we will say so and you will have saved a call. If AWS fits, you get a fixed scope and a fixed quote before anything moves.
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