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How to setup WordPress & WooCommerce on AWS using Cloudways
AWS
AWS or Amazon Web Services relates to the hosting infrastructure made available by Amazon to web users. Silicon Dales can help you to setup and fine tune your Amazon AWS environment to get the best performance and reliability – get in touch to find out more.
Moving / Copying an Amazon EC2 Instance from One Availability Zone (Region) to Another
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…
WooCommerce Developer in Manchester
In case you didn’t know (and why would you unless you were already watching us?), Silicon Dales opened an office in Manchester in August 2017.…
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…
Installing XCache on Amazon EC2
We’ve been benchmarking Amazon EC2 server instances for some highly complicated PHP applications over the past week. During this time, we’ve discovered that XCache is…
Apache HTTPD: Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
This is a post for those sysadmins out there who run into problems running servers with a LAMP setup. This issue will crop up occasionally…
WordPress Problem: Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again.
If you have recently installed WordPress, or you have just started tinkering with some image or other (such as the header image in the default…
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…
How to Restart MySQL After Editing innodb Log Size
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…
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…
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 CloudWays for Magento
Silicon Dales have been very impressed with the Magento Web Hosting offering over at CloudWays. The service includes 24/7 support and free migrations, as well…
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…
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…