Tag Archives: EC2

Laravel Envoy and Dynamic Resolution of AWS Server IPs

The issue is I have two main clients with two different AWS accounts, and they run the same web app, with slight variations, as well as a number of unique web apps. We also run lots of workers which may …

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DoS on Amazon EC2 instances running WordPress

I was got out of bed with an emergency call from a client at the weekend because his blog was down. This is the one that is getting a lot of traffic, but CPU was spiking up to 100% quite …

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Adding a new MySQL slave on EC2

There are a few posts around for doing this easily, but this has just worked nicely for me. This was done between two instances on Amazon EC2 cloud. On the existing slave (in mysql) SLAVE STOP; SLAVE SHOW STATUS\G; # …

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