Servers on the internet are under constant attack, usually from automated scripts trying to make use of your resources. WordPress installations are doubly attacked, because they’re often out of date and are relatively easy to take over. This article describes how to use fail2ban and Cloudflare to protect your Amazon…
Moving WordPress Between AWS Regions – EC2 and RDS
Moving WordPress Between AWS Regions – EC2 and RDS In previous articles, I’ve described how to set up WordPress in AWS using EC2 and RDS. In this article I’ll describe the steps I took to move the server between regions and get it working again – in my case from…
Fixing WordPress indexes, foreign keys and auto_increment fields
I recently migrated a number of WordPress websites and a custom PHP website from AWS RDS to MySQL on an EC2 instance using the AWS Database Migration Service. I didn’t know beforehand that secondary indexes, foreign keys, and auto_increment fields aren’t migrated – this made a heck of a mess,…
How to Migrate from RDS to MySQL on EC2
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.…
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…
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…
Recommended WordPress Backup Plugins
There are two main backup plugins we use for WordPress, UpdraftPlus and BackWPUp. Here’s how we configure them to back up WordPress blogs.
Websites and WordPress Themes for Photographers
If you’d like our thoughts on the best websites and WordPress themes for photographers, hosted systems such as Good Gallery, SquareSpace, etc, read more below. Updated Feb 2017.