Category Archives: Hosting Service

Your AWS Instance was scheduled for retirement? don’t panic

Posted on September 7, 2017 by john | 4 views

Intro After nearly four years of continuously running my AWS instance I got this scary email: What to do? The details Since I never dveloped much AWS expertise (never needed to since it just worked) I was afraid to do … Continue reading →

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Free DNS services

Posted on January 5, 2017 by john | 41 views

Intro I stumbled upon freenom.com, which offers free DNS domain names. So I tested it and successfully registered drjohnstechtalk.ml. .ml is Mali’s top level domain. I’ve heard it’s the only African country to open up its domains for free registration. … Continue reading →

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Scaling your apache to handle more requests

Posted on October 6, 2015 by john | 523 views

Intro I was running an apache instance very happily with mostly default options until the day came that I noticed it was taking seconds to serve a simple web page – one that it used to serve in 50 ms … Continue reading →

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Compiling Apache 2.4 on CentOS

Posted on July 16, 2015 by john | 4,354 views

Intro This is a tale of one thing leading to another. I’ll probably either continue this post or delete it altogether if I find I’m headed down a wrong path. The details I suspect that to get better marks for … Continue reading →

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running a second, third, …, instance of WordPress on your server

Posted on December 14, 2014 by john | 104 views

Intro Since I can host drjohnstechtalk.com myself on my AWS server, why not a second blog, totally unrelated, for a friend? This has not been documented as well as I would have liked though it is very straightforward. So I’ll … Continue reading →

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Hosting: You Really Can’t beat Amazon Web Services EC2

Posted on March 16, 2012 by john | 9,665 views

Intro You want to have your own server hosted by a service provider that’s going to take care of the hard stuff – uninterruptible power, fast pipe to the Internet, backups? That’s what I wanted. In addition I didn’t want … Continue reading →

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