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mscifo / pressless

[NO LONGER MAINTAINED] A tool that migrates an existing Wordpress site into a fully functioning Serverless site, powered by AWS (Cloudfront, API Gateway, Lambda, S3).
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Setup without RDS? #4

Open joshk0 opened 6 years ago

joshk0 commented 6 years ago

If i'm not mistaken, this is serverless except for the database server -- is that true? Do I need to set up a RDS instance for this?

The appeal of the 'serverless wordpress' idea is that, if no one is accessing it, it costs nothing at rest except for S3 persistence. But if I have to pay to keep an RDS instance turned on, that defeats the purpose.

How close is this to being able to run the RDS only while the WordPress instance is being accessed?

Thanks for a pretty cool project so far anyway!

mscifo commented 6 years ago

Yes, this is serverless except for the database server. You don't have to use RDS, you can choose to use an external or self hosted database server.

Wordpress itself has a core dependency on MySQL as a data store. I did play around with replacing MySQL with SQLite, but that had its own problems. If you're looking for a 100% serverless blog solution, I'd suggest using a static site generator or something like NetlifyCMS.

If you'd still like to use Wordpress but are looking for a serverless datastore component, waiting for Aurora Serverless might be your best option, which is currently in preview.

cscetbon commented 6 years ago

And now that Aurora Serverless is out. Did anyone played with it ?

hello-josh commented 6 years ago

Aurora Serverless should work with no modifications since it is MySQL compatible.