TL;DR: I made a completely new website and then migrated from my paid AWS infrastructure to a free OCI one. The first revision I did of this article was using documentation from Ubuntu on setting up WordPress which worked well except it did not have clear instructions for getting SSL certificates to work. However, Linode […]
Trimming the budget, WordPress Migration (AWS to OCI) Read More »
TL;DR: For this article, I wanted to write about something that many people are not familiar with, namely the WHY, WHAT, and HOW of migrating services from an on premise datacenter to a public cloud. If you have ever wondered why you should move, what it would cost to do so, or even how to
IT – Demystifying the cloud – Part 1 (AWS: Why, What, and how) Read More »
TL;DR We will analyze the different cloud providers and determine what we can get in the free tiers. Then, we will build VMs in different clouds for increased high availability. We will setup a domain, DNS via nameservers, as well as configure replication between our locations. In my quest to figure out how to get
Phew. I spent the past couple of weeks in an AWS Developer Associate training session and let me just say that it was easy and hard at the same time. The concepts and what you are doing are fairly straightforward, but the amount of material is substantially greater compared to the AWS Architect or AWS
Finished AWS Developer Associate Training (It is a beast) Read More »
Back in March, I setup piHole on an Amazon EC2 instance. If you are new to AWS, you can get a year of the smaller EC2 server instances to use for free for 1 year. Afterwards, it is pennies per day depending on what size you build. Super neat. Save on power, pi and random
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So coming from the Windows world, certificates are kind of a pain. You have to generate a certificate request from a trusted authority, then sign the certificate, and manually install it on the server. Plus, if you are using a 3rd party to do it and not your own domain then you will have to
IT – SSL Certificates Read More »
The purpose of this webpage is to chart the progressions of my journey into various interests and activities. I will be linking to some of the different sources where I have published data so that this site can serve as a better aggregator of information as well as a possible timeline of activities. Recently, the
