Migrating Wordpress to App Engine - Configuring GCP

Part 3 in the series Migrating Wordpress to App Engine looks at creating and configuring a Google Cloud Platform project, and setting up the relevant services within Google Cloud Platform.

Migration to Ghost...

A few years ago I took a look at Ghost, another take on a blogging/publishing platform. Around that time I was looking for an alternative to Wordpress, a modern alternative that focused on deliverying content rather than worrying about caching your site. Unforunately, back then, it was version 0, essentially a beta, and I decided the product wasn't ready. Now we're here in 2019 and this site has moved to Ghost.

Migrating Wordpress to Google App Engine - Configuring Your Environment

Part 2 in series, Migrating Wordpress to App Engine, we take a look at installing the required applications for your Windows environment, preparing to start the migration process.

Lets Encrypt: What's new (at least for me)

After a recent dive into Let's Encrypt, I came to realise that there are a lot of new features in ACME v2 that enable the ease of using Let's Encrypt. Let's take a new dive into Let's Encrypt utilising the new features.

Doing Something With a Server: Lets Encrypt

After setting up our server with Open Litespeed, MariaDB and Webmin, let's look at securing the HTTPS server with SSL using Let's Encrypt.

Doing Something With a Server: Webmin

Now we have everything set up and your website is running, you may be wondering if there is an easier way to manage your virtual machine? Don’t worry, we have you covered. Or should I say Webmin has you covered. If you find it difficult to manage an operating system via CLI, like myself, you will find Webmin is very easy to do that.

Doing Something With a Server: Installing MariaDB

Now that we have a web server we need to install an SQL server. There are many choices out there; MySQL from Oracle, MariaDB is driven by the community or Microsoft SQL server. My personal preference is MariaDB. Let’s go and install that.

Battlefield 5: 1 and a bit months later - Update 1

Since my original BFV post I give you some updates to this awesome game.