Updates, Upgrades, and Migrates
New Server, new WordPress install. I must say, the export/import feature in WordPress is very slick. I’ve been using it since well before v1.0, and it has come a long way.
The motivation for the upgrade came with a server migration I’m in the middle of. I’m in the process of starting up a consulting company for Amazon Web Services, and decided it would be rather obscene if I at least didn’t host my blog on EC2. So here we are – in the cloud. It’s kinda cold, and wet.
A web server on EC2, you ask. But what about the htdocs, and virt-host files? We need persistent storage! I created two EBS volumes (both formatted to XFS): one for MySQL data stores and Apache config, and another for /home. I decided to put all of the htdocs in /home (along with user’s public_html) instead of the traditional /var/www. It was easier than creating a volume for /var as well.
So we have a full LAMP stack running on a small EC2 instance, costing us the same as our machine at ServerBeach. The main difference being we now have a development environment within AWS making things much easier to test and deploy.
Here’s a sad-face icon I made for my growl-notification when/if my instance goes down
-David