First Thoughts on AWS and ThanksAJ.com is Back!
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@tonyshowoff said:
Today's To Do List:
- Get my leprosy treated
- Commence DDoS attack against ThanksAJ.com
BTW, nice post, pretty informative, I bet especially to those new to AWS.
I had never touched AWS before 6ish hours ago. I couldn't figure out at first why the server was accessible to me via SSH but the website I was trying to get to wasn't working. Then I realized...I had to allow port 80 inbound. After that, it started working.
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So one thing I will say I don't like about AWS is the names for everything. A VM is an instance. Firewall rules are under security group, which to me is users and those users' permissions. They seemed to go out of their way to make all the names of standard stuff as unique to them as possible, and that is a little irritating, IMHO.
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Excellent post @thanksaj
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@thanksaj said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
Free for the first year.
You sure?
Yes it is only for the first year.
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@thanksaj said:
So one thing I will say I don't like about AWS is the names for everything. A VM is an instance. Firewall rules are under security group, which to me is users and those users' permissions. They seemed to go out of their way to make all the names of standard stuff as unique to them as possible, and that is a little irritating, IMHO.
They think they are cisco lol
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@Aaron-Studer said:
Free for the first year.
Yup, I used it too. Now I have to pay for it. It's just an extended trial.
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How much is it after the year? Can't be terribly much for a 1cpu 1gb instance.
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One of the features that I like about Amazon is getting to use Amazon Linux. It is a really lean, really tight distro that is tuned for use on AWS. If you can, I would recommend it. It is based off of RHEL but heavily modified. And no SystemD. It is the last, major non-SystemD Linux.
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AWS is $20/month after the first year.
You might take a look at digital ocean, or vultr after you year is up for a more affordable alternative.
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I second Digital Ocean. They have 1 click installers for wordpress.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/one-click-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04-with-digitalocean
