In this video tutorial I will walk through the steps to add swap file to your server instance. What is a swap file? A swap file is a mechanism to increases your servers available memory and can safe-guard your application from crashing. For example If you have an AWS Lightsail instance with 1GB memory and …
How To Add Swap Space on AWS Lightsail Server Instance Read More »
In this video I wanted to show you a possible fix for an issue you may run into when using Lightsail with the WordPress install by Bitnami. For those that use the popular Lightsail plans at $3.5 or $5 instances and use the WordPress image managed by Bitnami you may have experienced the instance becomes …
AWS Lightsail Instance with WordPress becoming unresponsive? Watch for Easy Fix! Read More »
Hey Everyone, welcome to another webhosting video tutorial. Majority of the viewers on this channel are hosting WordPress websites, either on Lightsail or another hosting provider. And if you are just getting started with learning WordPress you will want to make sure you have these 5 categories of plugins on your website. I will cover …
This will be a very quick tutorial in which I will show you how to enable Apache to read the .htaccess file. WordPress websites and plugins rely on the .htaccess file and Bitnami by default disables Apache from parsing the .htaccess file. Instead they provide a different method of adding parameters however may WordPress plugins …
How To Enable .htaccess for Apache on AWS Lightsail WordPress Read More »
In this webhosting video tutorial I will walk through setting up Varnish Caching service on a Bitnami based WordPress website within the AWS Lightsail platform. Varnish is an http accelerator or caching service that acts like reverse proxy so it sits in front of Apache/PHP and its’ primary purpose is to take static access like …
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In this video I will show you how to fix API Authentication errors that you may be running into. If your WordPress website is using the Bitnami Image on lightsail and uses a plugin or theme that requires APIs that need authorization or authentication, you may run into errors even though you may have everything …
Fix WordPress REST API Authentication in APACHE/BITNAMI Read More »
In this video I will attempt to setup a WordPress instance with the WP SMTP plugin. Then I will configure the SendInBlue service with a custom domain that uses AWS Route 53 for DNS management. There is a odd way of verifying TXT records in Route 53 and I’m not sure if this the case …
Website Email Setup with AWS Route 53 and SendInBlue Read More »
In this video I will show you how to fix file and folder permission issues on your Lightsail WordPress install. If you manage a WordPress site using the Bitnami blueprint in Lightsail, you may run into permission errors. These errors are mostly in two areas:1. If you are trying to update a file using SFTP …
Easily Fix File and Folder Permissions Denied Errors in Bitnami WordPress Read More »
This is a screen recording of me creating an AWS Lightsail WordPress instance with CDN. I was preparing a Lightsail instance and CDN service using Lightsail Distribution for another video tutorial for the channel. This video is just a screen recording with no narration but will show you how to quickly setup a Lightsail WordPress …
Watch Me Create an AWS Lightsail WordPress Instance with CDN (SCREEN RECORDING) Read More »
In this video I will show you how to point root domains to your Lightsail CDN service. If you have followed my previous videos on setting up Lightsail CDN you know that the when you create a CDN, Lightsail assigns a domain name; something that starts with d3434343.cloudfront.net. If you want to point your own …
Lightsail CDN Tutorial: How-To Use Route 53 to create Alias records for Root Domains Read More »
