I'm kind of a techno dork, and love learning about new things in technology. When I have the time, I enjoy posting tutorial video's that will help folks out. This channel will be focused on Wordpress blogging, Web Services such as AWS or Azure, RU-vid content to help those that are just starting a channel, and anything related to technology. Hopefully you'll find this helpful.
That sounds about right for me also. I used to pay roughly 6 to $10 a month. For regular WordPress blogs. My newest project the only thing different is it is a dating app membership website. My cost for 2024 however has been much different. I now pay about $50 a month and looking in the cost optimizer can't figure out why. Is anyone else having issues like this? Anyone know what I can try?
My website broke. Content Delivery Network object support via Amazon Cloudfront is currently enabled and not authorized. Content Delivery Network full-site-delivery support via None is currently disabled and not authorized.
Thanks for details. Looks like the video was posted 5 years ago. Is there similar video you have for AWS shield service to protect your website against DDOS?
You still need to redirect your domain name to the Cloudfront distribution, otherwise your visitors wont be pulling the site from the CDN cache. The test is only for 1 part of the ecuation. Cheers!
Adjust the slider bar next to "amount". You can increase or decrease the blur, at least. Making the area smaller or larger will help you reduce the feather. So if you make the area smaller but increase the blur, you will get less feathering, if that makes sense.
@@WanderingSwitchback no, it doesn’t make sense. My comment is 9 months old & I since solved it: to reduce feather, hover over the circle until it turns red ⭕️ then drag it.
Great tutorial! Do you know if there's any option to convert all the jpg or png images into webp? I'm hesitating between AWS + the plugin you mentioned, or the recently released Image CDN from Cloudflare (unfortunately there's no stable wordpress plugin for this yet).
Thank you. I haven't done much with Webp images, but I don't believe W3 Total Cache supports that format. I do think you can configure that manually by uploading a custom file, but my guess is you would have to upload each image manually.
That seems pretty expensive for a small amount of data. I must easily use several gigs a day from streaming services (especially with 4k) that use Aws like Netflix and they must be paying a fraction per GB else I'd be costing them hundreds a month.
I’m not clear how Netflix is architected, but I recall reading they were Amazon’s biggest AWS customer. If I recall, they were spending something like $10 million per month and that was a fee years ago. For a small blog I can confirm using AWS CloudFront is dirt cheap. I spend well under $1/month (for multiple blogs) and it’s been that way for years.
I kind of covered that in this video. If you’re looking for some specific metrics around how much faster your site could be using Cloudflare, I’ll take a look at doing that comparison.
@@Craigerson that comes with the paid portion of the plugin, which at this point, I am not sure if it was worth it. When you enable CDN in the settings, it is the option below FSD CDN. Do you still need to set up a bucket like in the previous video?
Ah got it now. That's the Pro Package from W3TC where you get their own CDN and some other things. I have not used it. I do believe they advertise you can eliminate render blocking CSS and JS, which intrigues me. I was actually thinking about doing a video on that to see if it works, but not sure I want to pay that fee. No S3 Bucket is needed when setting up CloudFront. That was a wasted step in the other video, and something you really didn't need to do.
This AWS CloudFront tutorial is a refresh of the content I posted on this topic 5 plus years ago. It has been updated to reflect the changes in the AWS Management Console as well as the W3 Total Cache Plugin. I'll also show how easy it happens to be to set up a CloudFront CDN for your WordPress blog that is running SSL. If you find this content helpful, feel free to like and subscribe.
Why on earth would you need to create an S3 bucket? You hosting your site off AWS? If not, then there is no purpose to create an S3 bucket. Not only that, you've missed a ton loads of other steps that need to be configured before any of this would work.
100% agree with your comment on setting up an S3 Bucket. It’s not needed. When I did this video 5 years ago, that seemed to be the only way I could get things to work. Having said that, I’ve got an updated video coming out this week that will refresh this process. Disagree that I missed a “ton” of other steps. Setting up a CDN using what I’ve laid out here works just fine. I’ve been using this for 5 years on my blogs, and the metrics Amazon provides tells me it’s working.
The method I described will cache pretty much everything in your blog. It’s completely configurable in your W3TC CDN settings. I’ve got a refreshed video coming this week on setting up CloudFront for your WordPress blog. I have not looked into using CloudFront on an EC2 instance, so not sure I can explain that for you.
I just dont understand one thing, wont my data lost when i stop the instance? How am I gonna make a backup of that? I wanna change the SSH key because the priv. key is lost.
@craigerson Everything is working on my end. quick question, does this actually move the media files off the hosting server and on too the amazon s3? for example everytime i upload images it will be using amazon s3 and not the hosting SSD space
you did not create a cloudfront distribution with any settings in the previous video, the plugin did it automatically for you. However here you already have the coudfront distribution. quite hard to follow this tutorial
Honestly when ppl have no idea what to do with the optimization and just see the enable/disable and test buttons.... The idea of autoptimize is to minify and combine the assets of your site (css/js/fonts etc) and depeding on the website, it may or may not help you. For example, if your website is large and uses a lot of different resources, combining all of them would certainly block the rendering of your document, but if the optimization is done right and the necessary assets excluded, the plugin can be indeed really helpful.
