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 …
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 to choose from, there are even great datacentre selections available for regions such as Australia, which historically have been a little underserved. If you’re looking for a way to host …
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 below will do this. This can be especially useful for updating logos or icons on the fly in a file system, without breaking stride, over command line (SSH). Note you …
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 message. Today, during a routine task we perform regularly – installing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account on behalf of a client – we received an error message during the …
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. …
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 reports. You can also do a similar thing with links from certain domains, too. As with referral spam in Google Analytics, non-useful traffic from other pretend sources is also something …
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 been very difficult, but it seems like the issue has gradually become clear: we need to install and update PIP; and then, the AWS linux puts this into the “wrong” …
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 with Codeable, they’ve gone down the “human profile page” route (nudge 😉 ) and our profile has a human face… mine), at the following link: https://jetpack.pro/profile/robscott/ Its pretty cool that …
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 …
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 on EC2 If you’ve tried to renew a Lets Encrypt cert on AWS EC2, and have run into an issue, which ends with (something like): from zope.interface import Interface ImportError: …
