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Poor Man’s Automated Snapshots for EC2

March 9, 2011 ~ Dan Ackerson ~ 6 Comments

We've invested quite some time in our WordPress Micro instance now. It's definitely past the playing-around, prototype phase, so let's get some automated backups in place. But, since we already suffered to get the EC2 API Tools installed, the hard part is actually done. Let's get a couple of weekly cronjobs setup: bitnami@awo:~$ crontab -l … Continue reading Poor Man’s Automated Snapshots for EC2

WordPress Caching For High Performance EC2 Micro Instances

February 15, 2011 ~ Dan Ackerson ~ 9 Comments

For the price, it's hard to beat the EC2 Micro instance. But, if you have even a little bit of traffic, don't expect to run a stock AMI without feeling some performance pain. After migrating this blog, we noticed that being logged in (meaning no wordpress cache hits) literally slowed the server down to a … Continue reading WordPress Caching For High Performance EC2 Micro Instances

Migrate Your WordPress Blog to a Bitnami EC2 Instance

January 20, 2011 ~ Dan Ackerson ~ 42 Comments

The cool thing about technical howtos like this is the ability to share with other folks who get just as excited. Looking to save costs on our blog hosting, Amazon's announcement of a 12 month free usage tier put us in the short list for migration. As Matthias did the bulk of the joyent public … Continue reading Migrate Your WordPress Blog to a Bitnami EC2 Instance

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