How to migrate WordPress on Lightsail to new PHP : Not so Straightforward
How to migrate WordPress on Lightsail to new PHP ? It is not so easy 🙂 Lightsail from Amazon has been wonderful so far for me. I find it easy…
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The Bitnami HTTPS Configuration Tool for Amazon Lightsail
Setting up Secure Socket Layer for Amazon Lightsail has become my favourite topic. It was not easy to set up initially and it gets even more troublesome when come to…
Setting up SSL for WordPress in Amazon Lightsail
I have been putting off setting up SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for this website for a long time. One of the reason was that I am absolutely fearful I will…
Amazon Lightsail reduces its prices
Good news. Amazon Lightsail, my preferred hosting provider now, has reduced its prices. And added two new instances (which I don’t think I will ever use). So it will now…
MXroute Multiple Domains Email Hosting
When you have a domain (such as xxx.com), you should use that domain for your email needs. You should NOT be using the Gmail (or whatever generic public mail provider)…
Amazon Route 53 with Lightsail and Naked Domain Redirecting
(Update in June 2019: Â you might want consider using the Bitnami Configuration tool which should solve this) Using Amazon Route 53 (for both domain registration and DNS) has its advantages.…
Amazon Lightsail and htaccess file
Amazon Lightsail is the new Amazon offering for VPS that individual web site owners can use for WordPress or other applications. I have described earlier in this blog post. As…
Amazon Lightsail and WordPress
Amazon Web Services has a service called Amazon Lightsail that enables customers to launch cloud projects with virtual private servers (VPS) starting at $5 per month. The key advantages about…
Twenty Fourteen Theme Full Page Width
Twenty Fourteen is the latest theme that Patnotebook is using. It is a nice theme (and responsive too !). But strangely, for a modern theme, it does not seemed to…
Google Mobile Friendly and WordPress Robots.txt
Recently, there was a big “exciting” development in the webmaster and our ever loving SEO world. For those who know it, it is known as Google Mobile Armageddon. Google is…
WordPress BackWPup Error shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons
For backup purposes of WordPress, I use a free plug in called BackWPup. It worked really well and can backup your WordPress blog to FTP server, Dropbox, Amazon S3 (nice…
WordPress : Messy Text next to Image
I want to start to write about some of my experiences with WordPress and the challenges and solutions etc when using it. Before that, I want to stress that these…