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Blog Brain Transplant
I started writing here at the end of November in 2014. At that time I figured out how to setup WordPress on an EC2 container in AWS and figure out how to secure it. From a general devops standpoint it was a great exercise for me to get better with AWS and just generally how…
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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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Site Upgrade
I decided to upgrade my site to the new version of Ubuntu as I haven’t done that for a couple of years. It is always a nice thing to work on when I am on vacation as it is the sort of thing that I don’t really get around to normally when I am busy.…
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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…