by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Wordpress
Short answer (with my specific WordPress setup and test scenarios): 10–15 concurrent users sustainably, 100 concurrent users before WordPress crashed. Long answer: I recently executed a test to measure performance of a t2.micro running WordPress, as part of a training...
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Step 1: Connecting to an Instance Before you can connect, you need to make a note of your server’s IP address (write it down!). Go back to your EC2 Control Panel and find your Public IP address. It’s the area that’s highlighted in the screenshot below… Next, you will...
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I’m about to be released into the wild as a free roaming web developer. I won’t have the company hosting anymore and it’s damn well about time I got my own shit sorted. After a little reading I have decided to give Amazon Web Services a try. So far I...
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon, General News
It’s been a year since Amazon.com Inc. agreed to buy Whole Foods for $13.5 billion. The biggest beneficiaries of the deal might be Amazon Prime members. Sky-blue signs advertising discounts for Prime members greet shoppers in some Whole Foods parking lots....
by ray | Jun 14, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google
It’s no surprise that cloud computing has literally taken the world by storm. For most businesses and enterprises, gone are the days of struggling with complicated on-premise server rooms and complicated networking. Over the past decade, cloud computing has become...
by ray | Jun 12, 2018 | Amazon, General News
News broke out earlier this week that Amazon’s Alexa assistant recorded a private conversation between two people and then sent that recording to a third party. Alexa, of course, is supposed to listen to everything you say but only act when you utter the designated...
