Hello there! If you are familiar with RDS and especially with MySQL running on RDS you may already know but for me this was a new thing that I missed when setting up and importing an existing database to MySQL. AWS documentation clearly states to achieve a robust backup solution – in terms of restore
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Amazon have a good write up on how to install WordPress on Amazon Linux AMIs however I couldn’t find much on how to get it working with Red Hat. I wondered if it was any different so got on with it and found it was pretty much identical. Given the prerequisites have all been completed
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In preparation of a webserver and attached backend database migration I have started working on building an AWS base image for this purpose. I chose RHEL 7.4 (Maipo) as it is Free Tier eligible on AWS. No hefty bills from the current host – Yay! As the expected load won’t be too high a micro
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