[vreihen16]

I have been hosting a simple WordPress web site and email forwarder on one of my shared web hosting service for a local club for many years now. It is the last thing on that hosting account, and the $150 annual renewal is coming up next month. I figured that it would take me two hours to migrate it to Amazon AWS LightSail, where it should only cost me $42/year to run the virtual server.

Although I use AWS for other things both personally and at work, I never used LightSail before today. Moving the WordPress stuff was only half an hour. The mail forwarder? The only way to receive emails into LightSail (or EC2) is a convoluted hack through their email sending service. They block incoming/outgoing SMTP traffic from being used by hit-and-run spammers. I applaud them for doing this...but it means that I have to kludge together their convoluted hack to do something that should have taken me 5 minutes to finish.....