I have been thinking about an own WordPress Blog for a while now, but I was uncertain about how to start it. At first, I considered a VPS Server, but the major downside is the manual installation of all components and hardening of the server. During my research, I stumbled over Amazon AWS which offers prebuilt WordPress Images on Ubuntu 16.04 by Bitnami. After creating an EC2 instance and checking the configuration, I was able to log into a fully functional WordPress Website in literally no time.
The Ubuntu Image even delivered an automatic setup for TLS certificate installation from lets encrypt, but unfortunately it only works for Apache and not for Nginx in my case. Therefore, I had to manually request a certificate and install it. Bitnami provides a guide for the whole process, so it’s doable by less experienced users. The only thing left to do is to upgrade the distribution before its end of life on April 2021 and hope it won’t break.
I will use this blog for sharing my thoughts mainly about security topics and provide tutorials on how to solve problems I encountered during projects and research. If you have requests or ideas on tutorials regarding specific topics feel free to contact me here.
