Splendid Digital Solutions
Digital Splendid OPC Pvt. Ltd.
Unlike on AWS Lightsail where you can have Plesk installed without a paid Plesk license, IBM Cloud does not have this facility as of now.
In other words, the web admin software by Plesk (Plesk Hosting Stack on Ubuntu) that is provided for free in AWS Lightsail is not available with IBM Cloud.
Intend to create static IP. Five free already used. Need to know how to create additional static IP and their charges. Are these charges forfeited with my AWS credits?
Thank you for reaching AWS Premium Support. I am Vishnu from Linux team and will be assisting you further with this case.
From the description, I understand that you would like to know how to create additional static IP addresses and their charges. Please feel free to correct me if I misunderstood your requirement in any way.
Kindly note that, there is no additional cost for increasing Static IP address limit. By default, all AWS accounts are limited to five Static IP addresses per Region, because public (IPv4) internet addresses are a scarce public resource. You can create a request directly from AWS console to increase the limit of Lightsail Static IP addresses in a region. Please use below link for the same.
Here you need to specify the “Region” and the new static IP address limit value with a clear Use case description. Once the request is submitted, our internal teams will review it and reach you with a confirmation on the same. If you require our assistance for creating the request, we can also create the request on behalf of you. In that case, kindly share the region, new static IP address limit value and a clear Use case description so that we can reach our internal teams with the request on your behalf.
Initially, launched a couple of instances on AWS Lightsail of Plesk Obsidian on Ubuntu (Web Admin Edition SE – FREE). The results were satisfactory. If there is an issue with the scarcity of memory resources manifesting in the slow loading of websites, you can upgrade. This is unlike on EC2 wherein you suddenly lose access to Plesk admin dashboard as well as WordPress admin dashboard.
When the 3 sites were of small sizes with less than 10 blog posts, I lose access apparently because of lack of free space.
The same outcome followed despite the content of the websites remaining the same while upgrading instance types from t3.small to t3a.medium and finally m5a.large in the course of few days.
To be fair, it is clearly mentioned in the catalog:
Note: Plesk runs smoothly on a t3.micro instance for not more than 3 websites or domains with a small load. Note: In case you need the full Plesk functionality and/or larger instance types and/or more available AWS regions, please refer to the commercial Plesk AMIs on the AWS Marketplace (Web Host Editions).
If you have AWS credits and do not intend to pay a subscription fee to Plesk, going with this same Plesk Obsidian on Ubuntu (Web Admin Edition SE – FREE) on Lightsail instead of EC2 works better by my experience.
It is assumed that you have already activated your AWS account.
Now, you can access Plesk admin dashboard, which is covered in an earlier article post written for Lightsail instance here: Plesk Hosting Stack on Ubuntu: 3 websites under one instance with plans starting 5$ per month on Amazon Lightsail and a demo of migration with free Migrate Guru plugin. The Plesk admin dashboard remains the same irrespective of being launched either on Lightsail or EC2 as for this demo.
Launch three websites after creating a Plesk Ubuntu instance on AWS Lightsail with plans starting at 5$ per month. This post will also include a demo of migration of an existing WordPress here using Migrate Guru plugin.
In case you intend to connect with FTP for files access, make sure to open ports 20-22, 49152-65535 under Networking. They are blocked by default. I have opened them as intend to migrate another WordPress instance/website to this using Migrate Guru plugin that needs FTP details as part of migration process.
Update A records of the domain name under DNS. For this demo, NameCheap.
From WordPress menu, install a fresh WordPress instance.
Will be using FTP option.
In the Directory Path field, first check in which directory wpconfig.php file located. If within httpdocs, then under Directory Path enter httpdocs (Directory path for WordPress site migration to Plesk using Migrator Guru plugin).
For destination URL, entering https://digitalsplendid.work as SSL activated earlier from the Plesk dashboard.
One of the hurdles I faced while migrating from a Bitnami application (under AWS Lightsail) is inability to add new plugins with this error message:
Installation failed: Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.
Here is the solution:
So, I address this issue for digitalsplendid.xyz.
Made a search with “Bitnami” on wp-config.php file and removed the line that has a code starting with define. After that, I could upload new plugins (as well update existing plugins).
We started with 5$ per month plan (cheapest plan for Plesk Ubuntu). Not surprisingly, once three WordPress websites live and contents posted, there will be resource issues. Refer this on how to upgrade: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/change-lightsail-plan/
