In this video, we will walk-through setting up new instances in Lightsail using the AWS CLI. The is a tool will allow us access many of the AWS Lightsail APIs. We’ll use a few of them today create new instances from the blueprints and from existing Lightsail snapshots . If you create frequent instances for …
How-to: Create Lightsail Instances using AWS CLI 2.0 and Lightsail API Read More »
Today I will walk you through setting up a Bitnami based WordPress instance on Lightsail, then we’ll remove the Bitnami banner, and we will also create a separate user based on the default Bitnami user that is created during instance creation. We’ll give the new user SSH access and permissions same as Bitnami. We can …
I’ve walked through the setup of a Docker based Webhost management tool called Caprover. If you haven’t you can check those videos out on my channel and I’ve linked them in the description below and cards above. One of the viewers commented on how to update PHP settings on the Docker based WordPress site, specifically …
Quick Tips – Access WordPress Files in Docker/Caprover Container Read More »
AWS Lightsail recently added a CPanel/WHM blueprint to their offering that you can use to create a Lightsail instance. CPanel/WHM, is a web hosting management software. Its used by many large web hosting companies. It is a great web hosting software if your intending to host large amount of websites for clients/customers. It may be …
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Recently AWS Lightsail introduced the ability to setup Content delivery Distributions within the LightSail Dashboard. This basically runs on AWS #CloudFront Content Delivery Network but they have taken all the complexity away for LightSail users. So in this week’s video I will show you how to setup your LightSail instance to take advantage of this …
How to speed up your #WordPress content with #AWS #Lightsail CDN Distribution Read More »
In this video we will walk-through setting up a WordPress cluster environment using Lightsail instances. This follows a tutorial by David Hilditch, I’ll leave a link below. His tutorial is based on Digital Ocean droplets, but we will be doing the same setup using AWS Lightsail instances. Below is a diagram of the setup.. We …
How To: Setup WordPress Cluster on LightSail using Percona and Unison Read More »
Today we will walk-through the setup of AWS Aurora service with WordPress on Lightsail Instance. I have a video on connecting WordPress with a Lightsail Database Service so if you are interested in that, click on the info card above; however AWS Aurora may be a little cost effective and also has more flexibility in …
How to setup #WordPress on #Lightsail and use Amazon #Aurora #RDS Read More »
In this video, I will continue tips on securing your #WordPress website. Its important to take the time to apply some simple security mechanisms to ensure your website doesn’t get compromised. We will walk you through 8 settings/rules you can apply to protect your website. Most of these steps involve .htaccess so make sure your …
WordPress Tips: 8 steps to secure your WordPress website with .htaccess Read More »
In this video, we will talk-through 7 steps in securing your WordPress site through the wp-config.php settings. Many of these settings that I will show you do not come setup by default so if you’ve built your website on WordPress, check these out and make sure you’ve applied them to your production sites. NOTE: Before …
How to Secure Your WordPress Website with wp-config Tweaks Read More »
This video will be about email and custom domains. I’ve shown you how to setup a custom domain with Zoho.com for email as well as setting up an Email Relay with SendinBlue. In this video we will look at another option on setting up a custom domain email with your own Gmail account. This tutorial …
WordPress Tip 6: Setup Custom Domain Email with Gmail Aliases Read More »
