thanks DAX70
]]>I am standing up a wordpress instance in Amazon AWS. We have an RDS instance of MySQL 5.7 running and we configured Route53 with a friendly DNS name. We’ll call it blogtest-db.mydomain.com. Now, I have WordPress files copied to /var/www/html and I’m getting the ‘database connection details’ setup screen. I have added the wordpresstest user to MySQL with full privileges. When complete the setup using db name: wordpresstest, username: wordpresstest, using the correct password, database host: blogtest-db.mydomain.com. I get “Error establishing a database connection”. I’ve tried both with and without adding :3306 to the DB hostname. No dice.
However, if I ssh to the wordpress host IP I am able to use mysql to connect to the RDS instance using all of the above information.
I’m pulling my hair out here trying to figure this out. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
]]>Having a news site and 2-3 authors posting new stories every 30min to an hour will equal 45 000 queries to your db, rapidly eating your IOPS and your site will fall over. if you are using a hosting provider and they keep pestering you to update and charge you more, this is the reason why.
If you have a small site with few posts, this is fine. If you have a huge site, do not use this plugin or if you plan on having a huge site do not use this plugin until they fix the indexing.
]]>I yesterday performed a wordpress install on a ubuntu xenial running apache.
The DB is used was AWS RDS Maria DB. The install was successfull and the wordpress site was up.
To save costs i shut down the instance, performed a RDS snapshot and delete RDS DB instance.
Today when i started instance, restored the DB snapshot and pointed to new DB host in wp-config.php the site is not coming up. The connection to DB is fine as tested on port 3306 from server running wordpress.
The page is not displaying an error just keeps on loading.
I have one concern: I’m responsible for maintaining a widely variety of WordPress installations and every time I update plugins and themes I have to go admin by admin to ask W3 Total Cache to re-upload files to CDN.
I’m wondering if it would be possible (and safe) to create a hook to trigger W3 Total Cache uploads when updates are finished. What’s your thought on that?
Kindly regards,
Henrique Mattos
I highly recommend it and works well with Amazon AWS EC2, RDS, S3 and CloudFront.
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