WordPress Multisite with Genesis

[defree99]

I'm in the process of setting up WordPress Multisite, using Genesis themes of course.

My concern is with hosting.

I've been told to stay away from shared hosting packages with Multisite.

So I was considering:

1) Amazon AWS
2) Google Cloud hosting

Any thoughts on these two?

[WisdmLabs]

Hi @defree99,

What is the kind of load in terms of Network I/O you are expecting on your server ? Are you okay with using Amazon RDS?.

The major factor to consider while using AWS and Google Cloud is the cost. Google Clouds is slightly less costly than the same configuration of AWS instance.

AWS comes with a free tier which give you around 1 gb ram and 8 gb space, with other free service like RDS, Elastic ip etc(https://aws.amazon.com/free/). One major issue that you will come across while choosing free instance is that when you are planing to run your db server in the same instance then 1 gb ram wont be sufficient.

During peak hour MySQl server could crash if it does not get enough memory. One way to solve this is go with RDS or Create SWAP(not much effective).
One benefit of AWS is it has more number of data center than Google Cloud. So if you are running a site which is specific to a particular region, you could literally choose a datacenter close to that region which decreases the response time of your site.
On thing i like about AWS is it's additional security layer which can be configured to allow/disallow ports/ip's. You can find a similar functionality in Google Cloud also.

On the other hand Google Cloud provide you with some initial credit that is sufficient to run your site for 2 months for free. You will be charged after that.

Upgrading(ram or space) is a bit more easier in GCloud compared to AWS.

If you don't want to take benefit of AWS free tire instance and also your site is not regional then i would recommend you to go with Google Cloud.

If you are going with AWS, please do not use M3. We had faced stolen cpu(https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/understanding-aws-stolen-cpu-and-how-it-affects-your-apps/) issue with our clients using M3 instance. We then upgraded it to M4.
I personally feel AWS provides better customer support than Google Cloud.

Dashboard is a bit complicated in GCloud than in AWS. Rest you could find the similar feature in Google Cloud as in AWS.

Calculate your cost and make the decision for your self:

Google Cloud:
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

AWS:
https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

Karthik
(Wisdmlabs)

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http://wisdmlabs.com/

[WisdmLabs]

Hi @defree99,

What is the kind of load in terms of Network I/O you are expecting on your server ? Are you okay with using Amazon RDS?.

The major factor to consider while using AWS and Google Cloud is the cost. Google Clouds is slightly less costly than the same configuration of AWS instance.

AWS comes with a free tier which give you around 1 gb ram and 8 gb space, with other free service like RDS, Elastic ip etc(https://aws.amazon.com/free/). One major issue that you will come across while choosing free instance is that when you are planing to run your db server in the same instance then 1 gb ram wont be sufficient.

During peak hour MySQl server could crash if it does not get enough memory. One way to solve this is go with RDS or Create SWAP(not much effective).
One benefit of AWS is it has more number of data center than Google Cloud. So if you are running a site which is specific to a particular region, you could literally choose a datacenter close to that region which decreases the response time of your site.
On thing i like about AWS is it's additional security layer which can be configured to allow/disallow ports/ip's. You can find a similar functionality in Google Cloud also.

On the other hand Google Cloud provide you with some initial credit that is sufficient to run your site for 2 months for free. You will be charged after that.

Upgrading(ram or space) is a bit more easier in GCloud compared to AWS.

If you don't want to take benefit of AWS free tire instance and also your site is not regional then i would recommend you to go with Google Cloud.

If you are going with AWS, please do not use M3. We had faced stolen cpu(https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/understanding-aws-stolen-cpu-and-how-it-affects-your-apps/) issue with our clients using M3 instance. We then upgraded it to M4.
I personally feel AWS provides better customer support than Google Cloud.

Dashboard is a bit complicated in GCloud than in AWS. Rest you could find the similar feature in Google Cloud as in AWS.

Calculate your cost and make the decision for your self:

Google Cloud:
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

AWS:
https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

Karthik
(Wisdmlabs)

http://wisdmlabs.com/

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http://wisdmlabs.com/

[Victor Font]

WordPress multisite runs fine on shared hosting. I don't understand why you were advised to avoid it.

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[Andrea Rennick]

Shared hosts don't know how to deal with multisite, to start. And if you are giving away free blogs on your site it violates their TOS.

@victor "runs fine" is a lot different than "should use better hosting". The only time I'd use multisite on a shared host is for setting up demo sites or for a test site. That's it. It's a huge resource hog once you get so large with an install.

Get a VSP or dedicated so you can tweak things server-side (depending on your use-case).

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[defree99]

Thank you all so much for your responses. This has been very helpful.

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