Blogging without servers
This week I migrated my 13 years old Wordpress blog to a serverless architecture. Here is why. The first version of the blog, between 2005 and 2013, was hosted at Dreamhost. Since I joined AWS in 2013, I migrated it to a simple cloud-based architecture : one Amazon EC2 instance, one Amazon RDS MySQL database and an Amazon CloudFront distribution, coupled with some AWS Web Application Firewall rules to filter out the bulk of unwanted traffic. I developed a couple of scripts to backup the AMI and collect logs with Cloudwatch, created alarms to be alerted about unusual events etc … Maintenance was minimal, my job was just to keep Linux, Apache, Wordpress up-to-date and monitoring the occasional alarms. But this was still too much for me, on top of my professional and family life. ...