Testing MySQL Connectivity From WordPress Docker Containers
Moving forward with feature development for the Store Locator Plus® SaaS service includes moving forward with our tool kits and environments. Docker containers have become a bigger part of our development toolkit. They make for rapid deployment of… 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
Cleaning Up WordPress – Large wp_options.idb
Did your tiny AWS Bitnami WordPress server run out of disk space? The culprit may be unoptimized data tables in MySQL. Finding a 4.9GB wp_options.idb file on your server is not as uncommon as you may think. What… Read More
Hate Spam? Turn Off Jetpack Email Sharing
The past few days have been spent diagnosing various email delivery issues from the AWS web cluster that is running our WordPress plugin store as well as our SaaS locator platform. During this process email routing was pushed… 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
