Tag: aws
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Thinking about using WordPress? Self-host.
The best hosting for WordPress is…your own cloud server.
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10 years and blogging strong
And there’s plenty more to come
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Graphically deregister AWS AMIs and associated S3 snapshots
PowerShell’s Out-GridView cmdlet rocks
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Understanding AWS RDS recovery
RDS backup and restore are (mostly) automatic
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A primer on using Vagrant with AWS to launch EC2 instances
Sitting on my hard disk, eyeing virtual machines with good intent
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How to enable SQL Server 2008 R2 authentication mode with PowerShell
Some of my friends who follow this blog have told me that they have no idea what I’ve been posting about lately. That’s because my recent posts have been mostly about helping people who are Googling specific questions. If you are one of my pals who who’ve stuck with me here, thank you. I appreciate it.…
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How to use PowerShell in Chef to install Windows Server features
Chef — the wildly popular configuration management system, whose motto is “infrastructure as code” — treats Windows as a second-class client, despite all protestations from from its creator, Opscode, to the contrary. Still, you can do some cool stuff with Windows and Chef in PowerShell, as long as you can stand the Ruby “domain specific language” that Opscode…
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How to use Route 53 private DNS with EFS mount targets
How to use the Elastic File System with DNS
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Time to pop some stuff off the stack
It’s been a swirl lately. That means limited time to post here. It pains me when I don’t post here regularly. Mind you, I am always thinking about things to say. I’d rather just get it out there in short form than forget stuff. Herewith, a “short stack”. (How’s that for mixing pancake and computer…
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AWS: Big? Check. Impenetrable? Nope.
Support done right
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How to manage EC2 EBS volume snapshots with PowerShell
One of the best features of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes in AWS is the capability to incrementally “snapshot” these volumes to more durable S3 storage. Everyone knows that if you don’t create these snapshots, one day your production EBS volume will go “poof” and disappear. Is that why the standard AWS icon, nearby, for a snapshot looks vaguely…
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AWS: the best thing since sliced bread?
At AWS re:Invent last November, I was invited to a marketing panel in which AWS sought customer feedback. I’ll never forget the developer on the panel who kept proclaiming his “love” of AWS — the answer to every question he was asked was, essentially, that AWS is the best technology ever invented. I think even…