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Posted by Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

Amazon EC2

It would be great if we could have a course/workshop on setting up an amazon EC2 instance with a LAMP stack so that you can get a Wordpress or similar site working.

From my point of view this would have to be from a newbie point of view e.g. little server experience.

3 Answers

Eric Kim
Eric Kim
1,380 Points
Eric Kim
Eric Kim
1,380 Points

I second this request. Just something with EC2. Start a partnership. Host their tutorials. Get free hosting from them.

Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points
Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

In the meantime has anyone had any experience with this http://bitnami.org/cloud, I have just signed up for a free account to give it a try. It looks like a great halfway house that is easy to set up.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

I'd suggest you use Turnkey Linux. They have a wide variety of applications including Wordpress.

In fact if you want to you can even deploy a Turnkey Linux VM to EC2 with just a click of the mouse.

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/wordpress

If you want to setup a local test VM: