Recently I registered a new domain, rootuser.ninja, for the purpose of testing AWS using the 12 month free tier offer. That gives you 750 hours per month to run a micro server, 1GB RAM, 8GB hard drive and 1 vCPU basically for free for a year. What’s not to like about that?! After the 12 months, each micro server is $0.012 per hour, that’s cheaper than a lot of web hosting and you get a dedicated server.
After spinning up my little VM with a CentOS 7 image I installed:
- Apache with all the wordpress pre-requisites
- MariaDB