Static websites are a great way to run a simple and inexpensive portfolio or landing page. And it’s even free if you leverage the AWS S3 free tier that allows you to host your static website for up to 5Gb storage and 20 000 visitors. In this tutorial, I will cover on how to host …
How to host a static website with Amazon AWS S3 and Route53? Read More »
If you are hosting a WordPress installation on a Linux server you may encounter issues updating your WordPress version from the WordPress administration panel. A good way to handle periodic WordPress updates is by running a weekly Unix command line in your linux cron. To do so, you’ll first need to install the WordPress CLI …
How to update WordPress core version from Unix Command Line CLI ? Read More »
From machine learning to a lambda function, most of the projects running on AWS relies on an S3 bucket to store the files you need for other AWS services. Uploading using the AWS S3 bucket web interface can be impossible when the folder contents contain thousands of files. (or if this folder is only available …
How to upload a folder content to AWS S3 in PHP? Read More »
I fell in love with how valuable a file hosting service can be around 2010 by getting introduced to Dropbox. Being able to access your files on the go and synchronize them between multiple computers was a game changer at a time where Cloud computing wasn’t yet a buzzword. 1) Why should you use an …
When you are building the website on top of AWS stack, using AWS Route53 to register your domain name is usually a good idea. (Cheap and well connected) However, Route53 only work as a DNS with no integrated hosting to use an email server. You then have a couple of choices available to you to …
How to create a domain email address for route53 and host it for free on Zoho ? Read More »
If you followed my last article “How to host an https WordPress site on AWS EC2 with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate?” you know have a Let’s Encrypt generated SSL certificate for your WordPress. Once in a while Let’s Encrypt will generate a new certificate if you scheduled the certbot-auto renew command. You’ll then need …
Chatbots have been around for a while now and I’ve had the opportunity to build a couple of them for clients using Oracle and AWS tools. I’m not a huge fan of brands building chatbot to use as customer support, let’s be honest, there is nothing worse than having to cope with a robot when …
How to build a Facebook Chatbot running on AWS Lambda and Claudia js Bot Builder ? Read More »
Hosting a WordPress blog/website on the AWS EC2 platform can be pretty useful when you know how to maintain Linux servers and want to tinker it yourself. (Free for your account first-year / then around €10/month) This is great for a small personal blog where you’ll do the maintenance and scalability yourself. (OS, databases, and …
How to host an https WordPress site on AWS EC2 with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate ? Read More »
So a lot of announcement from AWS went live last week in Vegas but here are the ones that definitely got my attention : A couple of interesting features on the Database side : Aurora now go Serverless Customer will be able to create database instance that will shutdown when not used. + Game changer …
