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 […]

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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 […]

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Amazon AWS EC2 Linux Swapfile

Posted on September 4, 2014     5 Comments

The Amazon EC2 Linux instances comes without swap. Sooner or later this will be a problem with service hangups or crashes as a result because you run out of memory. I found a lot of instructions on the web about how to add a swap file but no one takes the storage into concern and you may […]

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