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Free SSL certificates
Posted on July 20, 2017 Leave a Comment
StartSSL certificates isn’t trusted by several major browsers anymore and will probably lose all credibility and disappear from the market completely. In it’s place we have seen Let’s Encrypt growth explode for the last 18 months. This post will cover some background and how to use setup Let’s Encrypt on your Amazon EC2 Apache based […]
AWS EC2 Linux: Simple backup script
Posted on February 15, 2016 Leave a Comment
I have a small EC2 box running a couple of WordPress sites. To back them up I wrote a quick bash script that dumps out the databases and also zips up all the files. This script is running daily, the amount of disc space doesn’t really matter since the sites are really small. If you […]
AWS EC2 Linux: Enable SSH password logon
Posted on February 11, 2016 Leave a Comment
Amazon AWS EC2 instances are by default secured with ssh certificates. This is great for security until you need to provide a UAT duplicate for an external user or developer. You don’t want to share your certificate with them and setting up a new one is more work than this quick fix. The security isn’t […]
Amazon EC2 Linux – Add additional volumes
Posted on February 4, 2015 Leave a Comment
Adding additional storage to your Amazon EC2 instance have several advantages. You can select the right storage type for the use. Why use a fast SSD backed volume for storing nightly backups instead of magnetic storage, that ar slower but come at a much lower price. First you need to provision storage and assign it […]
Move MySQL database storage location
Posted on February 4, 2015 1 Comment
It’s always a good idea to keep storage away from the boot device. If you run out of space on the boot device the system will halt. If you make a new install it’s easy enough to move your storage and you can do it from a cloud-init script like this: [shell] – mkdir /var/db […]
Unattended use of mysql_secure_installation
Posted on February 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
After installing MySQL on any Linux distribution you run the mysql_secure_installation script, or at least you should! It will prompt you to set a new root password, remove anon access and a few other things. But if you want this configuration to be done in a deployment or cloud-init script? The mysql_secure_installation command/script doesn’t accept […]
Hackviking aka Kristofer Källsbo 