Deploying a WordPress Instance

  1. PrestaShop is an easy-to-use open-source e-commerce platform that allows users to create online stores and integrate them with their preferred payment gateways, WordPress, accounting software (such as Akaunting), and various other applications. This can be a self-managed alternative to Shopify or Etsy, for example.

    • Deploy the Blueprint
    • Click on the Home button in the Lightsail banner at the top to return to the ‘Instances’ page. Click “Create instance.”

    Create VPC

  2. Scroll down and choose PrestaShop as the template.

    • Scroll down and choose PrestaShop as the template.
    • Select a plan for your instance. Choose the $5 per month instance with 1GB of memory and 1 vCPU.

    Create VPC

  3. Name the virtual machine ‘Workshop-PrestaShop’.

    • Click Create instance to proceed.

    Create VPC