Website + WordPress Hosting Modernization on AWS
Customer Overview
Cyber Cops is a growing cybersecurity awareness and training platform that serves thousands of users across India. They operate a public-facing WordPress-based website used for publishing blogs, courses, and event announcements.
Their earlier WordPress deployment was on a shared VPS host, which led to frequent performance issues, downtime during peak traffic, poor backup policies, and no CDN integration. The customer aimed to modernize hosting to improve reliability, scalability, and security.
Customer Challenge
- Frequent downtime during traffic spikes
- Slow page loads due to lack of CDN or caching layers
- No automated backup or update strategy
- Shared tenancy increased vulnerability to exploits
- Manual WordPress updates created plugin compatibility issues
- No monitoring or alerting setup
Partner Solution
Revolutions.ai migrated Cyber Cops’ WordPress site to a high-availability architecture using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon RDS (MySQL), and Amazon EFS. We containerized the WordPress workload and deployed it behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) across multiple Availability Zones.
To ensure performance, we integrated Amazon CloudFront as a CDN, S3 for static content (media uploads), and implemented AWS WAF to mitigate common web attacks. Backups were managed through AWS Backup and automated AMI creation for EC2. CodePipeline was optionally used for staging and deployment of theme updates from GitHub.
AWS Architecture
Key Components:
- ALB distributes traffic to EC2 WordPress containers
- RDS Multi-AZ MySQL stores database
- EFS mounts shared wp-content across instances
- CloudFront delivers fast, global performance
- S3 stores uploads and static assets
- WAF & Shield protect from attacks
CodePipeline for version-controlled theme/plugin updates
AWS Services Used
| Service | Purpose |
| Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling | Hosts WordPress across AZs with scaling based on load |
| Amazon RDS (MySQL) | Relational database for WordPress content |
| Amazon EFS | Shared file system for wp-content across EC2 |
| Amazon CloudFront | Global CDN for performance and availability |
| Amazon S3 | Stores static files and media uploads |
| AWS WAF + AWS Shield | Web security against common vulnerabilities |
| Amazon Route 53 | DNS with failover and health checks |
| AWS CodePipeline | Optional CI/CD for WP codebase and themes |
| AWS Backup | Managed backups of RDS and EFS |
| Amazon CloudWatch | Monitoring of resource usage and uptime logs |
Third-Party Services Used
Results & Benefits
Additional Benefits:
- Multi-AZ fault tolerance
- Seamless WordPress updates via GitHub + CI/CD
- Improved SEO performance due to better TTFB
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