This site is about the concept WordPress JeOS.
WP JeOS is a customized and optimized Virtual Private Server in the cloud built with the sole purpose of running WordPress with the keywords:
The term “budget minded” involves both dollars and the number of your working hours.
WP JeOS is a paradigm for customizing
This tutorial is for you that are familiar with working with the command line and an SSH client. Your WordPress optimized VPS server could be in production within a few hours.
Overview of WP JeOS
DIY - Do It Yourself - or- Purchase help from TBT
Maintain a sound and sustainable password policy
Activate your free Amazon Web Services account here.
The first step is enabling RDS, ElastiCache, and EC2. In this process are you creating endpoints for ElastiCache and setting up your RDS database.
Find the newest Ubuntu VPS image in the region closest to your customers and users.
Budget vs. speed and redundancy
Delegate permissions and ownership to file and folders
Old type manual WordPress install
Install Memcached or Redis client for Amazon ElastiCache
Enable Apache modules for W3 Total Cache Browser Cache
Add virtual host and domains using a single IP
Cheats sheet: Adding new virtual host
Adding SSL certificate from CloudFlare
How to activate SSL with a free valid certificate
Use Google PageSpeed with Amazon ElastiCache
Correct IP when using CloudFlare
Auto reboot Ubuntu once a month
Automatically update WP, themes, and plugins with WP-CLI
Maintain a sound and sustainable password policy
The only ports that should be visible to the world are 443 and 22.
Allow only incoming traffic from the CloudFlare IP range on port 443 and your IP on port 22.
Allow only outgoing traffic to the net on port 443, your IP on port 22 and port 80
Allow only internal traffic to and from ElastiCache and RDS.
The package management tool apt-get needs outgoing port 80 to be open
More about the concept of security
How to set up outgoing mail from WordPress on port 443.
TIP: Consider using Slack.com for your forms as an alternative to of e-mail.
Many tasks kan be done better with Slack.
Garden Gnome Software requires the ZIP PHP extension
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Within a few year mobile is the preferred platform for consuming Internet services and products. WPtouch simplifes the transition from PC based WordPress to Google Accelerated Mobile pages -AMP – and other ways of presenting mobile content.
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Soap client for use with gateways
DOMDocument for multipart e-mail
mbsrtring for converting characters
WP-CLI
Migrate from local MySQL server to Amazon RDS MySQL
Migrate from shared server to WPJeOs.
A script could configure your WPjeOS server in minutes. A simple online form where you enter domain name and credentials for AWS, CloudFlare, and MaxCDN. Within a few moments, your server is ready for production. Just point your nameservers to CloudFlare.
MaxCDN, CloudFlare, and WordPress together in harmony?
WordPress without a CDN is not a good idea. Google penalizes you for slowness. Customers abandon your site because they won’t wait for the site to load. Period. MaxCDN, CloudFlare, and WordPress together in harmony? Let us find out!
The concept of a server is about outdated. Why do you need a server?
Running the code on Google App Engine, Amazon Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk or another stateless solution seems much more sensible and logical.
You can WordPress on Microsoft Azure for free. The downside is that the free version does not let you use your domain name. For a small sum, you can run Microsoft Azure with you own domain name. The domain thing is really not a issue.
The other downside is that if you can not leverage the full power of WordPress. You need to run WordPress on an operating system in the Unix family to access all the features in WordPress. BSD and Linux is the most used Unix-family operating systems. Ubuntu is a Debian Linux build.
How to run WordPress for free on Microsoft AzureBitnami is among the mot user-friendly alternatives on the AWS marketplace. Great solutions. Fairly budget friendly also. The only downside I can see is that Bitnami and many of its like won’t fit within the definition of the JeOS concept.
Wikipedias defenition of the JeOS conceptSoftware as a service (SaaS) WordPress on AWS Marketplace
Read about the Bitnami WordPress Stack