Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a previous post I experimented with serverless monitoring of my websites. I was wondering if I could extend the monitoring functions to gather rudimentary data on the time it takes to load the site. I decided to modify the Lambda function I used earlier to calculate the time it...
Reading Time: 4 minutesI run a couple of websites for personal use, Nextcloud (an open source Dropbox alternative) and this WordPress site for personal use using a single EC2 instance. As this architecture is susceptible to a host of problems due to a lack of redundancy, I needed a way to keep an eye...
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you have a database on an EC2 instance, the question that comes up frequently is “how do I backup my database and where?”. The easiest option is to backup to Amazon’s S3 storage. This post shows you how to achive an automated database backup to S3 using a simple...