AWS Hosting Setup

AWS hosting set up right: fast, secure, not overpriced.

I size, secure, and configure AWS for WordPress and web apps, so the stack scales when traffic hits and stays cheap when it doesn’t. If AWS is the wrong home for your site, I’ll say so before you spend.

850+ clients served, from shared-hosting refugees to full AWS stacks

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What you are buying

₹18,000Fixed price, GST included
$229In dollars
One environmentScope

Work delivered for, or alongside, teams at:

  • IBM
  • Adobe
  • HubSpot
  • Canva
  • monday.com
  • IATA
  • FreshBooks
  • Acer
  • ASUS
  • Airtel
  • BYJU’S
  • AppSumo
  • StellarWP
  • Copyleaks
  • Depositphotos
  • accessiBe

What it costs

One environment, configured and documented.

A complete production stack sized to your real traffic, secured with IAM roles instead of root keys, and handed over with docs your team can actually run. AWS usage itself is billed by Amazon to your own account.

AWS hosting setup
₹18,000 $229fixed price · one environment
  • EC2 or Lightsail sized to your real traffic, not the biggest tier
  • Database configured with automated backups and recovery
  • CloudFront CDN and S3 for static assets and media
  • SSL, locked-down security groups, and IAM roles, no root keys
  • CloudWatch dashboards with downtime and cost alerts
  • Migration of one site onto the stack, plus a handover runbook
Set up my AWS

Ongoing AWS management is available after handover, quoted by scope.

All prices include GST.

How this runs

You will know the price and the plan before I touch anything.

1

Scope

Tell me your application, traffic numbers, and growth plans. I spec the right architecture for your budget, and if managed hosting would serve you better, this is where I say it.

You leave with: an architecture sized to reality.

2

Build

I provision compute, database, storage, and CDN, all wired with IAM roles, closed security groups, and SSL. No root credentials in config files, ever.

You leave with: a secured, documented stack.

3

Migrate

Your site moves onto the stack with caching configured, then gets tested under load before DNS points anywhere. The old environment stays available as the fallback.

You leave with: your site running on the new stack.

4

Hand off

You get CloudWatch dashboards, alert rules for downtime and cost, a deployment runbook, and access docs. The stack belongs to your team, not to me.

You leave with: infrastructure your team can run.

A note from me

How I set up AWS

Most AWS pain isn’t AWS, it’s misconfiguration: an instance sized by guesswork, a database sharing the web server’s box, port 22 open to the world. I fix those decisions before they become invoices.

I refuse shortcuts with root credentials. Everything runs on IAM roles with least privilege, because most AWS breaches are a leaked key, not a clever attacker.

And I set the cost alarms on day one. You should hear about a runaway bill from CloudWatch, not from your card statement.

— Gaurav

Before you write in

This isn’t for every site.

Worth starting

  • Your traffic has outgrown shared or managed hosting and spikes are taking you down.
  • You need control over the stack: PHP versions, server config, custom services.
  • You’re already on AWS but suspect the setup is oversized, insecure, or both.
  • You run WordPress alongside a custom app and want them on one coherent stack.
  • You want a documented handover, not a dependency on whoever set it up.

Look elsewhere

  • Your budget is under ₹18,000. A managed DigitalOcean droplet at ₹12,000 covers most sites for less.
  • You need multi-region Kubernetes or a dedicated DevOps team’s job. This is one production stack, done well.
  • Your site is a 10-page brochure. Managed WordPress hosting is simpler and cheaper to live with.
  • You want me to hold the AWS account. The account and billing stay yours; I configure, I don’t take custody.
  • You expect AWS to be automatically cheaper than your current host. It isn’t; it’s more controllable, and I’ll show you the math first.

If you want to:

  • Survive traffic spikes without paying for idle capacity
  • Lock the doors IAM roles and closed security groups
  • See problems early dashboards and alerts, not customer emails

Common questions

Not answered here? Ask directly and you will hear back within 24 hours.

₹18,000 fixed for one environment, and the price includes GST. That covers sizing and provisioning, database and CDN configuration, security groups and IAM roles, monitoring with cost alerts, migration of one site, and a handover runbook. AWS usage itself is billed by Amazon to your account.

It can be excellent for high-traffic or custom setups that need scale and control. It’s also more complex and easier to misconfigure than managed hosting. If your site doesn’t need AWS’s power, I’ll say so in the scoping call and point you somewhere simpler.

You do, always. The account, the billing, and every resource stay under your control. I work through IAM access you can revoke the moment the handover is done, which is exactly how it should be.

Not automatically, and sometimes not at all. AWS wins on control and scalability, and a right-sized setup avoids the runaway bills that give it a bad name. I’ll estimate your monthly AWS cost during scoping, before you commit to anything.

Optionally, yes. The handover docs are written so your team can run it without me, but if you’d rather have monitoring, patching, and cost review handled, ongoing management is quoted by scope after the setup lands.

Gaurav Tiwari

About me

So, who’s watching your site?

Everything I would put on your site is running on mine first.

Care clients get the same stack I trust with my own traffic: GT Performance, Cloudflare, Redis, Hetzner.

I was a teacher before I was a developer. I taught mathematics to competitive-exam students, which is why I explain hard things plainly instead of hiding behind jargon.

What I am actually good at is the join: technical SEO, fast front-ends, and content treated as one system instead of three vendors blaming each other.

  • Author of GT Performance, my own caching engine
  • Hardening proven on my own production sites
  • Plugins on 10,000+ sites
  • WordPress Core contributor
  • 850+ clients since 2008
  • Building for the web since 2008

Describe the app and the traffic you expect.

Tell me what runs where today, your current bill, and what growth looks like. I’ll reply with the architecture I’d build, the estimated AWS cost, and the start date.

Replies within 24 hours, usually the same day