Category: Cloud
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Simplifying WordPress farm deployments using symbolic links
I have previously posted on how to create a WordPress (Multisite) farm on a Bitnami server. A big problem when you manage a farm is keeping all the plug-ins up-to date. Until the release of WordPress 3.9 it was not possible to have single copy of a plug-in in a master version and then symbolically…
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Installing Newrelic server monitoring
In a previous post I explained how to install Newrelic server application monitoring for WordPress. I now realise that this is probably putting the cart before the horse in that one should install Newrelic Server monitoring first. This is very easy. The instructions are here and at the bottom of the page it gives advice on…
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Installing Newrelic application monitoring on Bitnami Servers
W3 Total Cache recommends Newrelic for WordPress application monitoring. Newrelic provides detailed server and application monitoring. The PHP agent tracks which pages take a long time to render and which queries take a long time to run. Install Newrelic I installed the Newrelic agent and daemon using apt get as instructed on their website. (Bitnami…
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Managing MySQL on Bitnami AWS servers
There are two clients that can be used to manage the MySQL server on Bitnami AWS servers. phpMyAdmin This is a php application web application that has been pre-installed by Bitnami MySQL Workbench. A rich client that runs on your desktop and connects over a socket The approach is both cases is similar you need…
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How to give an IAM user access to an S3 bucket
My backup strategy for my Bitnami WordPress Multisite has been to enable hourly snapshots in the Bitnami EC2 console. Now that I have created a WordPress Multisite farm on my server this is no longer sufficient. The reason is that I need the ability to restore (and hence backup) individual websites and the server now hosts many websites.…
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The future of Windows
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/j34uJD7Eoiw/ This is a very insightful article that shows how Microsoft could be planning to reconcile the different needs of consumers and businesses and reduce the licensing and support burden. Some key points: There will only be Windows, not Windows 9, 10, 11 … which will all require different support cycles This will be possible because…
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Creating a WordPress farm on a Bitnami server
This is a work in progress and may be updated in future. Please feel free to comment. The Bitnami stack for deployment on AWS is beautifully crafted. Ubuntu Apache2 WordPress (single instance) Other PHP applications Apache2 configuration Apache is configured so that there is a default website. /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs with a configuration file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf Optimisation…
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Microsoft OneDrive is better than Google Docs
I needed to share an Excel document so I investigated Microsoft OneDrive. Microsoft is late to the file syncing party Dropbox and Google Docs having got well ahead. I’ve used Dropbox a lot, because it just works; it is really effective and painless way of sharing files quickly. This is their core business and they…
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How to install a SSL certificate on a Bitnami WordPress server
In a previous post I described how to enforce SSL in this post I show how to replace the self-signed certificate with one from a Certificate Authority such as StartSLL. The standard configuration of Bitnami servers is that the Apache configuration is overwritten by an application configuration. The Bitnami server is provided with a self-signed…
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How to enforce SSL on a Bitnami WordPress server
Bitnami servers come with Apache and WordPress SSL enabled with a self signed certificate. I will address replacing this certificate in a later post. As I understand it Bitnami configures the AWS cloud image so that the application configuration overwrites the Apache configuration. This is described in their documentation. Bitnami documentation for Apache The relevant…
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