How to migrate a website from shared hosting to AWS EC2 – Step by Step

This is a step by step tutorial on how to migrate any WordPress website from shared hosting (BigRock in our case) to a free AWS EC2 instance. This video covers following steps:

– Backup Database of Existing Website
– Backup Web files of Existing Website
– Create AWS EC2 Instance
– Update A records (using shared hosting DNS manager)
– Log into AWS EC2 Instance
– Creating Directories for the website
– Creating configuration files for virtual hosts (to host multiple websites on a single AWS EC2 instance)
– Upload web files file to AWS EC2 Instance
– Upload the database
– Check website

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