My recent personal and professional development efforts have taken a microservices approach. This escalated to having 8 services running 3 different languages across 5 different frameworks. After banging my head against the command line for a few days trying to get these to coexist I decided to try Docker containers to attempt streamline and simplify […]
How to speed up WordPress Apache using Batcache Multisite and Memcache on CentOS
I run a small WordPress network on an Amazon Micro Instance and this means that I need to stay on top of caching. Having had a look around at a lot of different options I decided that I would use Batcache and Memcache to provide me with in memory caching should one of my posts […]
How to setup an AWS EC2 instance to reduce WordPress hacker attacks
WordPress hacker attacks have been on the rise this year and although I haven’t been hacked (touch wood) they have managed to overload my site on a number of occasions. I have been on a quest to stop them getting in and also to reduce the instances of their repeated entry attempts taking it down. […]
Install WordPress on an Amazon AWS EC2 Linux instance with persistence to Amazon EBS
I figured that it was finally time for me to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty with WordPress running on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Linux Micro instance. I know you can use a preinstalled image but I wanted to understand what was going on under the hood so decided to start […]