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Site Upgrade
My site was down for much of today as I finally took the plunge and rebuilt my image from ground up. This was something I had considered doing for some time now. The old site had been through a couple of ubuntu upgrades and was chugging along, but I always thought it would be good…
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Upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 -> 16.04.1 under Amazon EC2
The Upgrade Process I finally got around to upgrading my web server from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04.1. I decided to jot down my experiences in case anyone else runs into these issues. Preparation The first thing I did prior to doing the upgrade was to run updraft plus to backup the Blog’s database and…
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Amazon EC2 Nano Instances
About a month ago I got an email from Amazon that they had introduced a nano instance. This was a very timely email as I was just nearing the end of my free year of AWS (your first year they give you enough of an EC2 budget to run a t2.micro instance for free). I…