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…
Moving / Copying an Amazon EC2 Instance from One Availability Zone (Region) to Another
Amazon Web Services
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Why Is My Website Slow?
This is a question we are asked by people on a regular basis: “Why is my website slow?” The answer provided here, since 2012, is…
Introducing the “Amazon S3 Storage” WooCommerce extension
How to Safely Update Linux in AWS EC2 Micro Instance – Using Yum
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…
How to Setup FTP (FTPS (not SFTP)) on an AWS EC2 Instance
Below are the commands required to setup FTP (well, FTPS in fact, and specifically not SFTP, which you can most easily use by adding your…
AWS EC2 Instance Won’t Stop
If you use a lot – or even just one – EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS), from time-to-time, you might find that an…
Tuning WordPress for Faster PageSpeed: Use Httpd.conf Instead of .htaccess for Permalinks
Looking to squeeze a little more speed out of your WordPress installation? Trying to drive an AWS micro instance beyond the realms of sensibility out…
MySQL Innodb Tables Crashing on AWS EC2 Instance? Is Your Disk Full?
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…
How to Download from WeTransfer Straight to your Server in PuTTy / Terminal
This tutorial explains how to use wget and WeTransfer, to direct files straight at your server or VPS. If you are working with watery broadband, then sometimes…
Get $150 Free Credit from Cloudways – Another Black Friday Offer!
Cloudways is our top recommended host for WooCommerce. In terms of value-for-money, it doesn’t get better than this. With a full range of hosting options…
How to Migrate to Kinsta
Kinsta is Silicon Dales’ favourite managed WordPress + WooCommerce hosts when it comes to the support, available features and admin panel. Though they’re traditionally a…
How to convert colours to black in images using ImageMagick
If you want to convert PNG (or similar) files containing, for example, icons which are in one colour (say green) to black, then the command…
What To Do If You Get “System Error 1” During AWS Phone Verification
Here’s a little tip for someone who encountered a strange error during AWS telephone verification… Successfully get your account setup pin after receiving an error…
Installing PHP SOAP – Need soapclient?
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…
Block “ghost spam is free from the politics, we dancing like a paralytics” From Analytics
This post uses a common “Analytics spam” phrase as a hook around which to explain how to remove certain phrases from polluting your Google Analytics…
Updating Let’s Encrypt on Amazon EC2 – Resolve “zope.interface… No module named interface”
On AWS EC2 instances, sometimes we run into an issue or two, in particular, in dealing with Let’s Encrypt certification. To be frank, auto-renew has…
Finding Us on Automattic’s Jetpack.pro
Automattic, the owners of WordPress.com, have recently setup a WordPress professionals directory, which they’re calling Jetpack.pro. You can find us (well, me, actually, as, like…
How to Setup MySQL’s my.cnf for Micro AWS EC2 Instance
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…
AWS AMI Let’s Encrypt Troubleshooting & Fixing “No module named interface”
This is a pretty technical post, about how to troubleshoot and fix a not-quite-renewing correctly lets encrypt certificate on AWS instances! Let’s Encrypt renewals patchy…
Adding a User to AWS with CloudFront permissions
If you want to allow someone else (like a contractor, or Silicon Dales) to access your AWS account to add CloudFront to act as a…