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Shrinking an Amazon Linux Root Volume – Work-a-round

Background: Created an EC2 instance with a 40GB hard drive, realized that I wouldn't need that size and seeing that the EBS pricing for my region is $0.12 per GB-month of provisioned storage I was paying for 32GB of unneeded space. So I thought to myself I should...

Postbooks Updater won’t run on Fedora 26 work-a-round

Fedora 26 comes with Postbooks 4.10.1 (Fedora 25 had 4.10.0) so you need to upgrade your Postbooks database when you move to F26. But the Updater application errors out with missing libraries. So the answer is to run it on Ubuntu 14.04 as a Virtual Box Guest Other...

I have moved to Amazon Web Services

So tonight I moved my websites to AWS. I logged into AWS and created all my DNS zones and records in Route 53 and then logged into multiple DNS registrars they were registered with and pointed them to Route 53 DNS servers. I chose the default Amazon Linux AMI and then...