Why Cloudways for Hosting Website on AWS?

Thunderstack

The Cloudways platform places special emphasis on PHP Cloud hosting. All PHP apps on AWS infrastructure on Cloudways platform take advantage of the optimized stack consisting of Nginx/Varnish web servers, Apache HTTP accelerator, MySQL 5.5, PHP 7.x and other related technologies.

Performance

To facilitate you further, Cloudways enables you to monitor 15+ important server metrics in graphical form, to ensure you are always aware of how your server is performing. You will also get a free New Relic account for advanced metrics monitoring.

Security

Cloudways also provides fool-proof security to its deployed web applications, with identity management, SSL certificates, data redundancy, automated backups on AWS S3 and many other similar features.

Application Management

SFTP/SSH access is available on Cloudways console, along with Team Management Module that allows you to easily choose server and app access levels for your team. Meanwhile, developers can easily integrate applications from Git and can also get unlimited staging URLs for development purposes.

Apart from this, advanced scripts can be added without any external configuration when you enable them from the interface (for example, Redis cache and ElasticSearch).

To facilitate its users to the maximum, Cloudways enables you to monitor 15+ important metrics in graphical form, to ensure you are always aware of how your server is performing. You will also get a free New Relic account for advanced metrics monitoring!Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Which PHP framework is supported on AWS?

A: You can host Laravel, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony and many other PHP frameworks on AWS Cloud servers. All of these frameworks are quite advanced and provides optimized features to be deployed with PHP7 AWS EC2 servers.

Q: How many CMS platforms supported on AWS?

A: All the major CMS solutions including WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Joomla, Moodle and others are supported on AWS. The platform provides easy and quick installation of these CMSs on its servers, providing better Cloud infrastructure to build applications with.

Q: Which tools I can use to deploy PHP on AWS with Cloudways?

A: Using Cloudways, you can either deploy PHP apps on AWS via manual process or could use some deployment tools like Envoyer, DeployBot and more others. These tools are supported on Cloudways, helping you to deploy your apps on AWS with zero downtime. Moreover, Cloudways also provides pre-built GitHub deployment tool which gives ease to the developers to deploy their projects from GitHub in minutes.

Q: How to upgrade PHP7 on AWS hosting with Cloudways?

A: You can easily migrate PHP version on Cloudways by selecting the desired PHP version from the Settings and Packages tab. By default, all Cloudways servers comes preconfigured with PHP7.0, however you can upgrade to the latest PHP7.3 or any other version from the Settings and Packages tab.

Conclusion

So, this comes to the end of this article, in which I have demonstrated in detail how to host a PHP on Amazon EC2 server. Cloudways gives ready made solution to install PHP on AWS EC2 and the steps are rightly defined above.

Still want to know some more about Cloudways? Have a look at more features or you can always ask our 24/7 support team to guide you. Better yet, experience the console yourself and Start your free trial on the Cloudways by launching PHP7 on AWS EC2 server.