Category: EBS

Tutorial: Highly Available WordPress (Part II) In the previous part of this tutorial we introduced High Availability discussing different methods and different AWS services to achieve it. Now we’ll propose a particular solution based on one of these: use GlusterFS to unify the content of the instances. In this part we’ll explain how to move our WordPress

Tutorial: Highly Available WordPress (Part I) Unfortunately, things fail from time to time, including our applications’ servers. A connectivity problem at the datacenter, a natural disaster or a hardware issue can render our blog offline. Since we cannot predict the future nor prevent failures from happening, we are leveraging the power of the cloud in

AWS Guides: How to increase your EC2 Linux root volume size This guide applies to increasing the root volume size of an EBS EC2 Linux instance on AWS. By default most Linux instances come with an 8gb root volume unless you changed it at first launch. If you are one of the people that forgot