Ever wanted to move an Amazon EC2 instance from one Availability Zone (AZ aka Region) to another? Maybe you want to quickly replicate your entire server for delivery to users in Asia, North America (East or West coast) or you want to branch out with a new AZ in Europe? Whatever your reasons for doing …
Often, when logging into via SSH to an Amazon EC2 instance, you are told that there are several updates (usually including security updates) waiting to be updated on your system. The panel on Amazon Linux even goes so far as to explain how one might go about updating to this version. HOWEVER, as this may …
Sometimes, either because we’ve got a puny amount of RAM available, or because we’ve recently boosted available RAM, we want to allow MySQL a different amount of memory for it’s innodb logs. However, when we change this, restarting MySQLd can cause a hiccup or two. Namely, the MySQL service won’t restart. If this happens, what …
If you’re using a micro AWS EC2 instance to host a website which uses a database running on MySQL (yes, this is possible using WordPress on a free usage tier!), then you’ll need to configure MySQL to play nicely on such a puny setup. One very easy way to get this working relatively well is …
If you like the Android App Skype – free IM & video calls and you’d love to download it to your PC, this is the tutorial for you! Installing Skype – free IM & video calls on Android If you just want to grab Skype – free IM & video calls for your Android smartphone, …
The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that we very recently updated a couple of things here at the Silicon Dales website, and one of those steps has involved switching from delivering pages via HTTPS, now that we have retired the online shop section. The precise mechanism for doing this on a LAMP setup using …
If you, like me, want to use your SAMSUNG Galaxy s4 smartphone to access your emails via Gmail, then you’ll likely want to be able to turn on Sync on your S4 handset ASAP! This also works for other Samsung (and Android) smartphone devices. Syncing your phone is important, and sometimes, you might find it …
The tutorial below explains how to install Soapclient for PHP in a Linux system which is showing that this is not included. This may, for our clients, show up in your WooCommerce status page, and some plugins rely upon this to go about their business. The commands below will allow sysadmin to get this installed. …
We’ve been asked to troubleshoot Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) instances for a number of reasons. Recently, we took a look at an Amazon EC2 instance which was being used as a MySQL server and the task was to see why several MySQL innodb tables were crashing. The situation had got so …
A quick and simple command you might need from time-to-time if you’re running apache webservers in one or other Linux flavour. We often grab EC2 instances on Amazon, for example, for our clients and, for various reasons, we want the server to know what time it is here in the UK! So here’s the command …
