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Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Moved to git repository: https://github.com/denji/golang-tls

Generate private key (.key)

# Key considerations for algorithm "RSA" ≥ 2048-bit
openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048

# Key considerations for algorithm "ECDSA" ≥ secp384r1
# List ECDSA the supported curves (openssl ecparam -list_curves)

	package main

	import (
	"encoding/xml"
	"fmt"
	)

	type getFileRequest struct {
	XMLName struct{} `xml:"http://tempuri.org/ getFile"`
	User string `xml:"userName"`

	package main

	import (
	"log"
	"math/rand"
	)

	// Quicksort sorts slice of integers from smallest to greatest number
	func Quicksort(a []int) []int {
	if len(a) < 2 {

	4 error(s) occurred:

	* apply operation: Real and shadow diffs do not match! Real diff:

	module.ca:
	module.elasticcache:
	module.etcd:
	module.nats-streaming-server:
	module.rds:
	module.registry:

	### Keybase proof

	I hereby claim:

	* I am RichardKnop on github.
	* I am richardknop (https://keybase.io/richardknop) on keybase.
	* I have a public key whose fingerprint is 8E8A 9426 9E82 5411 752E ECA1 4631 66AC D49B 535C

	To claim this, I am signing this object:

	CREATE TABLE accounts(
	id serial PRIMARY KEY,
	name VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL
	);

	CREATE TABLE entries(
	id serial PRIMARY KEY,
	description VARCHAR(1024) NOT NULL,
	amount NUMERIC(20, 2) NOT NULL CHECK (amount > 0.0),
	-- Every entry is a credit to one account...

	{
	"timestamp": 1441804592.178703,
	"message": "Request failed: 500: {\"code\"=>10001, \"description\"=>\"no implicit conversion of Errno::ENOSPC into String\", \"error_code\"=>\"CF-TypeError\", \"backtrace\"=>[\"/var/vcap/packages/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_controller_ng/lib/cloud_controller/resource_pool.rb:105:in `+'\", \"/var/vcap/packages/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_controller_ng/lib/cloud_controller/resource_pool.rb:105:in `rescue in resource_known?'\", \"/var/vcap/packages/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_controller_ng/lib/cloud_controller/resource_pool.rb:98:in `resource_known?'\", \"/var/vcap/packages/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_controller_ng/lib/cloud_controller/resource_pool.rb:35:in `block in match_resources'\", \"/var/vcap/packages/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_controller_ng/lib/cloud_controller/resource_pool.rb:35:in `select'\", \"/var/vcap/packages/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_controller_ng/lib/cloud_controller/resource_pool.rb:35:in `match_resources'\", \"/var/vcap/packages/cloud_controller_ng/cloud_contro

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"time"

	"github.com/RichardKnop/machinery/v1"
	"github.com/RichardKnop/machinery/v1/config"
	"github.com/RichardKnop/machinery/v1/log"