For this reason, AMIs are what make AWS really powerful as a cloud hosting provider. You can collect and store your own AMI of a complete web application, in order to quickly “spin up” new server instances, for example in a new Availability Zone.
Combined with Load Balancers, AMIs make for a speedy cluster based WordPress network, with lots of latency and resilience built in. Just right for our bigger WooCommerce clients, for example.
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 CDN for your WordPress website (and why wouldn’t you, its a great way to offload static content, and can even be free for your first year under the free usage …
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 security certificate to your FTP program and accessing over SSH) on your AWS EC2 cloud instance. I’m assuming you use the AWS flavour of Linux. If you do not use …
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 …
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 instance becomes unresponsive, you can’t get in via SSH, and, when in the AWS console, the instance just won’t stop! When this happens, you select “Stop” in the console, and …
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” …
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: …
