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Life & fun · September 23, 2012

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Hosting my WordPress blog entirely on Amazon S3

Hosting my WordPress blog entirely on Amazon S3 launched on September 23, 2012 with 39 votes, #49 of 455 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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This is a personal blog post documenting the author's migration of a WordPress blog from an Amazon EC2 virtual machine to Amazon S3 storage. The post describes the cost-cutting motivation behind the move—reducing monthly hosting expenses—and explains the technical challenge of preserving the blog while shutting down a continuously running server. It is intended for readers interested in cloud infrastructure, cost optimization, and practical systems building.

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From the sources

Recently, I started going over my monthly bills to see if there was an easy way to cutdown on expenses. One entry that stuck out like a sore thumb was the $60 a month I spend (or should I say, spent) for a VM on EC2. I’ve used this VM for educational projects, hackathons, and testing things in a cloud environment. But none of these uses justified having a continuously running VM. With one exception: my blog is also hosted on this VM, and just shutting down my EC2 instance would have meant losing the blog. So I had to migrate the blog somewhere. Ever since I saw Werner Vogel’s post on how he moved his blog over to Amazon’s S3 service, I’ve been meaning to try that…from slowping.com

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