Case Study

Transformed WordPress Performance Achieving 99.9% Uptime and 80% Security Enhancement Through AWS Cloud Migration and CDN Optimization

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Industry 

Media and Publishing

Expertise 

Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF

Offerings/solutions 

Modernized WordPress infrastructure and improved performance, security, and efficiency with AWS.

About the Client

Himalaya Darpan is a dynamic Nepali-language daily that has been connecting communities since 2000. Published by Darpan Publication Pvt. Ltd. and head quartered in Siliguri, West Bengal.

Highlights

99.9%

Website uptime achieved

80%

Threat exposure reduction

40%

Faster page load times

The Challenge

The customer aimed to deploy a WordPress application to replace a broken website on their domain, ensuring a modern, functional, and visually appealing site. The setup needed to accommodate multiple editors with backend access for publishing and updating stories. The domain, managed through Cloudflare, was facing proxy-related issues that required resolution. Additionally, the existing site contained stories embedded with code, which needed proper handling during new deployment.

Solutions

• Establish secure AWS environment with custom VPC, subnets, security groups, and AWS IAM roles to host the WordPress application infrastructure.
• Deploy Amazon EC2 instance for WordPress application with Amazon RDS MySQL as production database, ensuring reliable and scalable hosting.
• Configure Amazon S3 for static content delivery through CloudFront integration and implement Amazon CloudFront on top of Application Load Balancer for optimized performance.
• Implement AWS WAF with custom WordPress and MySQL security rules, along with comprehensive security and monitoring services for enhanced protection.
• Configure Application Load Balancer for traffic distribution, integrate AWS Certificate Manager for SSL certificates, and conduct knowledge transfer sessions with comprehensive documentation.

The Results

AWS services delivered modern WordPress infrastructure achieving 99.9% uptime, enhanced security reducing threat exposure by 80%, improved page load times by 40% through Amazon CloudFront integration, accelerated content publishing by 50%, and optimized infrastructure management overhead by 30%.

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