Aurora MySQL Storage Monitoring & Reduction

Using Aurora MySQL is a great way to host a MySQL database at low cost while providing a scalable and fault tolerant environment. Once you’ve setup your multi-zone cluster AWS takes care of much of the scaling for… Read More
Hosting WordPress On AWS

As fate would have it, Summer 2022 has come with some life changes that include a renewed focus on the long-established business at Charleston Software Associates (CSA). In the decade-plus that the company has been in place there… Read More
React Build Settings on Amplify

The technology stack that was inherited from the prior tech team at Research Blocks came with some outdated methodologies. One of those areas was in the deployment of React applicationa on EC2 instances. For Single Page Applications (SPAs),… Read More
AWS LEMP Stacks and EFS Issues

Lesson learned — if you are using EFS on production systems you want to be using provisioned throughput mode. But, before we get into that, let’s go over the details of this implementation… Service Configuration We utilize AWS… Read More
Converting A Standalone Instance Into An EC2 Load Balanced Cluster

Creating a new web application that resides on an AWS load balanced cluster is easy with the Elastic Beanstalk assistant. That is a great solution if you want to run every web service or application on their own… Read More