- charlottefayep: break up with him on the Fourth of July, call that a Declaration of Independence
- RoyalHoeliness: Elon Musk is evidence that you don’t need to be smart, attractive, charming, funny or a good person to be rich 🤷🏻♀️
- i386: LOL https://t.co/X9Mv6eHyJ5
- caratune: John Laurens started the thirst train. I merely hopped aboard. #HamiltonFilm #Hamilton #AlexanderHamilton… https://t.co/v4nVbH1ynU
- dannysteenman: @web_goddess Hi Kris don’t forget about security, I wrote a tutorial on hardening your wordpress site on aws lights… https://t.co/VVt6o7VLRU (in reply to web_goddess)
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Well, that was an ordeal.
A few weeks ago I got an email that my shared web hosting account (that I use for both this site and RoaldDahlFans) was up for renewal, and it reminded me that I didn’t like the host I was using. I was stuck on PHP5 and they were going to charge me more to move to a server with PHP7, and that pissed me off. So I asked Twitter what to do.
https://twitter.com/web_goddess/status/1272772556529864705
I got a lot of different answers, most of which were a LOT more expensive than I was spending. I was okay with going up a little bit, but these are both hobby sites rather than professional so anything over, say, $20/month was too much. A few folks threw out the suggestion to use Amazon Lightsail, which was intriguing. After all, it’s always a good idea to eat your own dog food. (I should also mention that these sites are and have always been hosted and paid for by me personally, so they’re not running on my employee AWS account or anything like that.)
I thought I’d document the process that I followed for the sites, which was based on this blog post and this AWS tutorial. Truthfully, setting up a new WordPress site on Lightsail is super easy and takes less than hour. All the complexity was because I was migrating two very old and very crufty sites from PHP5 to PHP7 and trying to preserve twenty years’ worth of old URLs. So even though I encountered a few hurdles not described in the tutorials, I wouldn’t let that stop you. Read on for the details…
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- pwcc: Breath, Peter, breath!
EIGHT HOURS! https://t.co/cKlu3XXvVv
- randomknits: Yes, I am that woman at Aldi first thing in the morning buying two bottles of gin https://t.co/fbXiAlbtuj https://t.co/omw1RmsGvl
- OzKitsch: The world is gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?
#hamilfilm https://t.co/IIxx4fZ0v2 - The_McJones: chuckling at my own stupid joke https://t.co/7vLBGNOAYL
- Lin_Manuel: Stage Manager: half hour ladies and gentlemen, this is your half hour call. Remember there will be cameras at tonig… https://t.co/9SCRHFOEIH
- K83Bell: Did I just wake up at 3am just to watch @HamiltonMusical to be back in the room where it happened . Why yes, yes I did. @Lin_Manuel
- sdwagar: I might be a little late this morning 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻#Hamilfilm https://t.co/Cl7JJ96Wh1
- pwcc: Breath, Peter, breath!
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- dhh: In part because the public finally trust their own lying eyes: That not everything Silicon Valley touches turns to… https://t.co/4ODzaJ2Tlx (in reply to dhh)
- QuinnyPig: I may not have risen to the level of @awscloud posting a "setting the record straight" blog post about my shenaniga… https://t.co/bxwUbV9NGm
- AngryMerkas: @stephanpalagan Der Markt regelt alles. (in reply to stephanpalagan)
- hannahcancode: I made croissants again! Last time I made them I managed to time it for that day when the snowy mountains were on f… https://t.co/EX2BgmqdUI
- stibbons: @pjf Tiny mate *aced* all of the tests they threw his way, including a few kids a month or two older struggle with.… https://t.co/pqQ1rM9Oly (in reply to stibbons)
- stibbons: @pjf This has been a *massive* weight off my mind.
Also, he had huge beaming smiles for everybody in the clinic and was hecking cute. (in reply to stibbons)
- unixbigot: I wonder what would happen if you built an entire industry whose hiring practices exclusively selected people who’v… https://t.co/e3uqmtrhZB
- Zajakot: It me. Just the standard Australian punctuational swears. They rarely even register as swearing to me 😅 https://t.co/RACdZMQdPN
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- thingskatedid: Adding important things to my http responses https://t.co/HSleKH9yO1
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- RaeGun2k: I wonder how much easier it would be had there not been a culture against women for decades. That's a good chunk of… https://t.co/POSNEDTy1S
- CloverMoore: As of today, the City of Sydney is powered by 100% renewable electricity. https://t.co/3qJaQduBac
- darthroach_: @shadihamid I lost all my conservative friends because they couldn't stop saying racist, sexist, or transphobic shi… https://t.co/7F9mzxfUft (in reply to shadihamid)
- drwitty_knitter: @justasitsounds @web_goddess I doubt there is enough popcorn in the whole world for this. (in reply to justasitsounds)
- samnevers: @web_goddess Haha my tell is in my documentation – my creative writing degree is paying off 😆 (in reply to web_goddess)
- pwcc: Because I have a problem, I made a Hamilton Film countdown for my second screen. PS I do not actually think my prob… https://t.co/fTauG26IlO
- verbaliza: Xander is the Ross of Buffy
- m_mobbs: @archer_rs Wonderful thread even for me, an Australian living in Sydney. Thank you (in reply to archer_rs)
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- yow_conf: Getting set up for our first virtual conference #YOWDataOnline!
#datascience #dataengineering #machinelearning #ai https://t.co/ATObzkey4V - kbuttfield: Happy Birthday to my darling boy, Dr @parisba – tempus fugit but I’d do it all again ♥️ love you ♥️- gives me a ch… https://t.co/eCg3uYhtBI
- keandrews: @web_goddess WCAG 2.0 has guidelines to avoid triggering epileptic seizures ( https://t.co/q6AMnib5CL ) and it's poss… https://t.co/A8kxW6B9X5 (in reply to web_goddess)
- OphelieLechat: @web_goddess I’m honestly baffled and struggling to reconcile the amount of bad will directed at the team with the… https://t.co/aI6U35sQ5v (in reply to web_goddess)
- snookca: It’s nice to be reminded every now and then that I still know my shit.
- gilmae: Conveniently a "Richard" also means a turd, so it is multi-layered. https://t.co/9NglAV4BB6
- yow_conf: Getting set up for our first virtual conference #YOWDataOnline!
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- GeorgeTakei: The fragility of folks who won’t wear a mask is truly breathtaking. I lived for four years inside two internment ca… https://t.co/Gyb8E4XWHS
- KenTremendous: Network executives say a lot of things to people when they don't want to just say "You suck at being funny." https://t.co/pHhuf4ljSY
- MrMikeLawson: “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask mys… https://t.co/CBKsNOevhb
- shellkryan: My son bought me a new book and this is my favourite page. https://t.co/9SsI8oSpQh
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- kfury: Retweet if you worked with framesets and server-side imagemaps.
- LeenaVanD: I went to a bra lady to ask her how to support my chest when working out so my tits don’t end up in my socks and sh… https://t.co/yA2a20VuWv
- thomas_k_r: that dude who built npm and then broke twitter by saying his choice to have children has systemically oppressed him… https://t.co/SliueVdFSh
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- NYGovCuomo: Wake up America.
What’s happening across the country isn’t a second wave.
It’s still the first wave.
- GGDSydney: #SheHacks is still on – just a little later! We are super stoked to announce that we are still going ahead with our… https://t.co/esGpxjjzq8
- chixors: Published! What a delightful surprise to have with coffee this morning. Well done @KathyReid 👏🥰 https://t.co/U7YvKWt2sA
- dunneteach: Found a hydrangea heart in the garden. https://t.co/WMaf87ZIHA
- msharp: S really does make the most incredible cakes. https://t.co/rEw0xQEzZo
- Emma_Brown: @drvyom @CovidVictoria Hands up if you just assumed everyone in quarantine was getting tested 🙋🏻♀️ (in reply to drvyom)
- NYGovCuomo: Wake up America.