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Host a few wordpress pages on Amazon (for scalability) and the rest of the site on our host servers?

by TheWebGuy
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Hi Warriors,

I have a site hosted on our server. However, we have a few sales pages that get a ton of traffic that we and affiliates send traffic to. Our site and sales pages are made by wordpress. So my question is, is it possible to host our critical pages at Amazon? So for example, example.com is on our host's server but we host example.com/sales-page on Amazon?

We need our sales pages to be up 100% of the time and also have unlimited scalability (no out of memory, server crashes, etc).
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by TheWebGuy View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    I have a site hosted on our server. However, we have a few sales pages that get a ton of traffic that we and affiliates send traffic to. Our site and sales pages are made by wordpress. So my question is, is it possible to host our critical pages at Amazon? So for example, example.com is on our host's server but we host example.com/sales-page on Amazon?

    We need our sales pages to be up 100% of the time and also have unlimited scalability (no out of memory, server crashes, etc).


    Just do a 301 redirect on your host from the popular pages/URLs on your domain to the pages/URLs hosted on Amazon.

    I wouldn't do this If any of your traffic is coming from SEO (Google SERPs).
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    • Profile picture of the author TheWebGuy
      Thank you. But if our server is down for some reason, that redirect wouldn't work correct?

      Is there anyway around this?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by TheWebGuy View Post

        Thank you. But if our server is down for some reason, that redirect wouldn't work correct?

        Is there anyway around this?
        Why not move the whole site to amazon?
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        • Profile picture of the author TheWebGuy
          Isn't that expensive? I also use wordpress and I've heard they're not the best for Wordpress? Is that true?

          Also, I'm not a hosting/server genius and my understanding is they don't offer much support. It's more DIY. Maybe I'm wrong though.
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          • Profile picture of the author Steve B
            Originally Posted by TheWebGuy View Post

            . . . I've heard they're not the best for Wordpress?

            If I had a dollar for everything "I've heard" that came off the Internet that was wrong, or false, or mis-information, I would never have to work again.

            I would encourage you to do a little of your own research at S3 and figure out if their solution will help you.

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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    I would make a "sales" subdomain and put up an HTML site on S3.

    I don't know what your thoughts are but hosting WP on Amazon is insanely expensive. They charged me almost $200 for a database instance I hadn't even finished setting up.

    I see a lot of JVZ sellers who are hosting their sites (especially delivery pages) on S3.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheWebGuy
      Thank you for your reply. If I create html/css versions of the pages and host them on S3 is the pricing pretty good (and is the hosting fast and unlimited scalability)?

      Also, is hosting on s3 the same as hosting on EC2?
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