Category: AWS
Given the target audience of Lightsail, I would expect UI-based functionality for automating snapshots and other common tasks; however, this doesn’t exist. Creating snapshots is an important task – I create snapshots before I make any major changes and every few days. In the event I screw something up or if something happens to my…
AWS Lambda enables you to run code without managing a server. You simply plop in your code and it does the rest (no maintenance, scaling concerns, etc). The cost is only $0.20 per 1 million requests/month and the first million requests are free each month. In the previous post, I setup an SNS topic. I’m extending…
Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a handy AWS product which enables programmatic publication and subscription to topics. They can be as simple as email or SMS or involve more complicated services complicated like Lambda, SQS, HTTP, etc. The write-up below walks through the process end-to-end from installing the AWS PHP SDK to publishing your first message…
I’ve been with multiple webhosts over the years (DreamHost, Host Gator, Site5, 1and1, SiteGround, and I’m probably forgetting a few) and even ran a reseller of my own for a several years. In the past few years, large groups like Endurance International Group have been gobbling up mom-n-pops operations like Site5 and Host Gator and…
