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.
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 of a spirit of good old-fashioned thriftiness? Whatever you’re looking to achieve with WordPress, if you want to speed things up and you have root access to your server, one …
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 …
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 …
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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 as being reasonably priced for most entry-level clients. Silicon Dales endorses the hosting provided by CloudWays as suitable and preferable for the majority of Magento websites. How to Migrate to CloudWays …
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. …
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: …
