Until recently, I’ve been running this site on a managed WordPress host. It was pretty simple for me to set up when I was getting started, but now that I know more about AWS I decided it would be interesting to try moving to an AWS hosted instance. The yearly subscription I have with the other hosting company is about to renew, so it was a good time to move this over.

There conveniently is a WordPress AMI managed by Bitnami that I was able to use. I then exported my old content, imported it to the new server and then fiddled with some of the themes and settings. I then set up a static IP for my instance and pointed the DNS of the other hosting company to it..

I don’t have too much actual content on here and none of it is dynamic, so I’m considering switching to a serverless setup. This would mean ditching WordPress entirely, but the result would be cheaper and fun experiment. Stay tuned for that.