Tag Archives: AWS

Human Made’s S3 Uploads Plugin

Posted on November 7, 2024 by Reverend

Last year I wrote a bit about the WP Offload Media plugin when we were offloading more than 700 GB of files from Macaulay’s Eportfolios to S3. The plugin did the job, but one of the struggles with this plugin … Continue reading →

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Macaulay Migrations, Random Litespeed Issues, and S3 Media Offloads – Oh My!

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Reverend

[Lessons learned: never do a victory lap on your blog before the migration is in the bag.] It’s been well over a month in the making, and in many ways it started my descent into the Mouth of Madness that … Continue reading →

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Notes on WP Offload Media

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Reverend

At Reclaim Hosting we’ve been exploring plugins for offloading media from larger WordPress instances to object storage such as AWS’s S3 or Digital Ocean’s Spaces. There are a lot of good reasons to do this: First and foremost, we want … Continue reading →

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Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Reverend

These days I’ve been in a Mastodon maintenance state-of-mind, as my last post highlights. Early this week I tried to shore up some security issues linked with listing files publicly in our AWS S3 bucket. This encouraged me to explore … Continue reading →

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Mastodon Version Updates, Object Storage Security, and More

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Reverend

This post provides a place for me to capture some of the maintenance work I’ve been doing on social.ds106.us and reclaim.rocks; the two Mastodon instances of note I’m currently administering. Keep in mind these two instances are running on a … Continue reading →

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The Ghost of bava

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Reverend

This is kind of a record keeping post, it turns out when you’ve been blogging for nearly 15 years posts can be useful to remind you of what you did years earlier that you presently have no recollection of. It’s … Continue reading →

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Look a(nother) Ghost

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Reverend

Since May of 2014 I have been playing on and off with the blogging platform Ghost. It has been an on again off again affair, and I have never left WordPress for it, but rather use it as a test … Continue reading →

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Give Up the AWS Ghost

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Reverend

Building on my last post about moving ds106.club off Amazon Web Services (AWS), I moved another EC2 instance I setup back in 2014 to run the blogging platform Ghost. Like ds106.club, I had not been able to access the server … Continue reading →

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Ocean’s 106 Club

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Reverend

My own personal web monitoring system, Alan Levine, sent me this tweet Friday: @jimgroom what the ~ happened to https://t.co/sKXA0liG9y ? — Alan has x-ed to @cogdog (@cogdog) September 8, 2016 Turns out ds106.club was down, and I’m pretty sure a … Continue reading →

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Putting Domains Infrastructure in the Cloud

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Reverend

This semester we having been moving our Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) packages for new institutions to Digital Ocean. Up and until now we haven’t run DoOO through cloud infrastructure providers like AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. for two reasons: price … Continue reading →

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