AWS platform · 36 regions
WordPress has to live somewhere.We run it close to your visitors.
AWS has data centres in 36 regions around the world, Cape Town included. We build and run your WordPress on them: keeping it fast, keeping it safe, watching it around the clock and fixing it when something goes wrong.
Cape Town1 of 36 AWS regions
Edge request
Visitor routed → south
Application proof
Expected response verified
Production signal
P95 TTFB 142 ms
Recovery state
node-b healthy
The platform
What runs your site.
Six layers sit between a visitor and your content. We run and monitor every one of them, and each has a plan for its bad day.
A browser asks for a page. Location, connection quality and cache state all affect what follows.
Cached content is served close to the visitor, and suspicious traffic is challenged before it reaches your site.
Nginx, PHP and WordPress build the page. We check the output itself, not just whether the server is up.
Frequently used data stays close to the application, so the database is not asked the same question twice.
WordPress reads the current state of your site. We watch connections, query times and replication separately.
The visitor gets a working page, and we keep enough detail to investigate if anything ever misbehaves.
Regions and data
Host near your visitors.
AWS runs 36 regions, from Cape Town to Frankfurt to Tokyo. Hosting near your audience makes the site faster, and hosting inside the right legal boundary, POPIA or GDPR, keeps your compliance answers simple.
What stays in your region
The application, database, cache, storage and backups, documented as an explicit list you can hand to an auditor.
What may leave it
Email, analytics, payments and embedded media may each process data elsewhere. Hosting in a region does not prove they keep data there too, so we map those paths with you during the architecture review.
Under pressure
When something breaks, this is what happens.
00:00 / Symptom
The machine answers. WordPress does not.
Some visitors see errors. The server still passes basic checks, but the actual page is wrong, which is exactly the failure a host that only watches servers would miss.
00:18 / Signal
Monitoring opens the incident.
Monitoring ties the errors to the server and the requests involved, and a person gets a clear alert rather than another graph to interpret.
00:31 / Automatic response
Traffic moves off the sick server.
New visitors flow to the healthy server. The sick one is kept aside, untouched, so we can find out what went wrong.
01:46 / Investigation
Our engineer digs for the cause behind the symptom.
They review logs, recent releases, resource behaviour and dependencies. A restart may restore service, but it does not explain why the service failed.
03:12 / Verification
We confirm the site healthy from the outside.
We check the response, the page content and a few real actions, like a form submission, before the incident moves to follow-up.
Next working day / Follow-up
If the incident taught us something, we change how we work.
We adjust alert thresholds, deployment checks, capacity, application code or documentation where the evidence supports it.
Who does what
AWS provides the machines. We run your WordPress on them.
You
- Publish content and approve changes
- Set the business requirements
- Review the monthly report
Web.Eng
- Builds, deploys and updates the site
- Monitors and responds, day and night
- Restores, verifies and follows up after incidents
- Tests and applies security updates
AWS
- Supplies the servers and network
- Reports server health
- Provides the backup and recovery tools
Provider fit
The right cloud is the one your requirements justify.
AWS is a good fit when…
- 01Your audience has a home regionAWS has a region near your visitors and your regulators, from Cape Town to Frankfurt to Sydney.
- 02Your setup is genuinely complexMultiple sites, demanding integrations, serious traffic or strict recovery expectations justify a deeper platform.
- 03Your organisation already works within AWSExisting governance, procurement, security or data practices make AWS a natural home.
- 04Auditability mattersThe team needs architecture, responsibility and operational evidence documented clearly.
A simpler provider may be better when
Complexity would add cost without adding value.
- AThe workload is small and predictableA simpler platform may meet the real requirement cleanly.
- BCost simplicity is the priorityInfrastructure flexibility has a cost and should earn its place.
- CThe operational requirement is modestArchitecture should not become an identity project.
Architecture review / No default cloud
Put your current stack on the table.
We will map where your site lives, where its data goes, how it fails, who responds, and whether AWS is earning its place.