Introduction A year ago I moved all my websites to AWS using the free tier, using an EC2 t2.micro and the RDS relational database service. Now that my year of free tier is up I’d like to reduce my costs. I want to migrate from RDS to MySQL on EC2.…
Remove Gmail Warnings: Setting up DKIM and SPF for your domain
Google has announced recently that they will show an alert if they can’t authenticate the identity of the sender, in both the Gmail website, Android, and Apple iPhone, instead of showing your contact photo. Read on to see how to do something about this by setting up DKIM and SPF…
Upgrade Running Nginx on Amazon Linux
If you’d like to upgrade running Nginx on your Unix server version read on for some information on how to achieve it.
Fixing This Content Is No Longer Available WordPress Facebook Sharing Error
Fixing This Content Is No Longer Available Error Mike from Unique Moments photography contacted me to ask if I could fix a small problem with his WordPress Blog, running the Infinity Grid theme on Good Gallery – though this idea applies to any content shared to Facebook from any platform. Whenever he tried…
Setting Up Cloudflare CDN and Caching – Part Six – Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial
Setting up CloudFlare Free CDN for Website Caching and Security Introduction This multi-part tutorial is a complete guide to setting up WordPress on AWS. In this part of our tutorial we’ll be Setting up CloudFlare, a CDN that will let us distribute resources from our website around the world to…
Free HTTPS and HTTP2 for WordPress using Lets Encrypt on AWS – Part Five – Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial
Introduction This multi-part tutorial is a complete guide to setting up WordPress on AWS. This part of our tutorial we’ll set up HTTPS and HTTP/2 using free Let’s Encrypt certificates, and update WordPress to work on the new URL. Links to other parts of our tutorial Part One, Introduction Part…
WordPress Website Optimization, Nginx Caching and DNS Changes to Go Live – Part Four – Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial
Introduction This multi-part tutorial is a complete guide to setting up WordPress on AWS. In this part of our tutorial we’ll set up load testing and benchmarking, we’ll optimize the content delivery, and we’ll change DNS to take the website live. Benchmarking was done with both ab (Apache Bench) and…
Migrating WordPress Sites Into AWS – Part Three – Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial
Introduction This multi-part tutorial is a complete guide to setting up WordPress on AWS. This part of our tutorial helps set up Amazons RDS (Relational Database Service) as required for WordPress, install Wordpress, optionally install WordPress Multisite, and import your current WordPress site into WordPress single or multi site. Links to other parts…
Setting up AWS for WordPress with EC2, RDS, Nginx, HHVM – Part Two – Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial
Introduction This multi-part tutorial is a complete guide to Setting up WordPress on AWS. This part of our tutorial sets up an AWS Account, Relational Database Service, then installs the necessary system software such as Nginx, HHVM for PHP, SSMTP for email, and Monit for monitoring. Links to other parts of…
Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial – Part One: Introduction
Introduction This series of articles is a tutorial to help people with Hosting WordPress on AWS. The aim is to help you set up your own WordPress website hosting on a small AWS instance (t2.micro), then migrate your existing WordPress installs into WordPress or WordPress Multisite (WPMU). The aim is for really high performance…