I was experiencing a worrying issue on one of my servers recently. It’s a web server that hosts some low traffic WordPress blogs for some customers. Recently, the disk I/O chart for the server showed sudden rise in disk read, as shown in the graph below. Investigating the issue To investigate the issue, I connected […]
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Prepare a LAMP web development server on Amazon EC2
Here is a quick checklist for setting up LAMP development server on Amazon EC2. I used a standard Amazon Linux AMI on a T2.micro instance, which costs about $9/month at the time of writing this. Edit the DNS zone for your domain to add an A record for a sub-domain to point to the public […]