Create a Lightsail Instance with OS Only (Ubuntu 18.04) Setup a Static IP Open Firewall Port in the Lightsail Dashboard for HTTPS SSH into the Server you just setup Run following commands to update and upgrade apt-get sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Select Yes on the screen prompt Select Keep Local changes option on …
How to update PHP for WordPress website on AWS Lightsail Read More »
In this video I will walkthrough the process of setting up a separate AWS User for the Lightsail Console with restricted permissions. This will be useful if you need to give access to someone else other than you to maintain a Lightsail server instance. If you need to have someone let’s say manage a Lightsail …
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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 »
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 »
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 …
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In this video, I want to show you how to setup Automated Snapshots in Lightsail. What are Snapshots? Well, snapshots are copies of your entire server at that point in time. Its basically a backup. Why are they important? If anything were to happen to your servers that causes it to become unavailable , then …
AWS Lightsail for Beginners – Backup your Lightsail Instance with Automatic Snapshots Read More »
This is Part 4 of the AWS Lightsail for beginners series. In this video we look at PHPMyAdmin Database Utility. I show you how to install PHPMyAdmin on Lightsail Ubuntu Instance. We also talk about the benefits of PHPMyAdmin and scenarios where it is useful for Web Developers and Web Administrators. We also walk through …
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In this Part 3 video of AWS Lightsail for Beginners series I will show you how to install and configure SSH Client and access your Lightsail server from Terminal window. I will also show you how to install the free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for your domain on AWS Lightsail instance. Below are the two …
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Welcome to my first video series about setting up AWS Lightsail as a VPS system. This series AWS Lightsail for Beginners, will walk you through setting up an AWS Lightsail account all the way to having a full fledged VPS server ready to host multiple websites.
