In Part 2 of this series, we discussed selecting and launching a new Amazon Machine Instance (AMI), creating and configuring that instance to serve as a dedicated name server, and worked through configuring a DNS Cluster for use within your subnet. Today, we will launch and configure a standard Web Server instance using cPanel 11.39 or newer. I will discuss how to join the new instance to our existing DNS Cluster and how to ensure that …
In Part 1 of this four part series, we discussed establishing your VPC, creating and configuring your small subnet, and worked through configuring the Security Groups for our two instance types (‘NS_SG‘ and ‘VS_SG‘). Today, we work on launching a two new instances, running cPanel DNSONLY, into our VPC and configuring these to be the primary and secondary DNS resolvers for our environment. While this series is written with the assumption of using dedicated …
People argue for and against building a production hosting environment on top of cloud services such as Amazon’s AWS. I recently made the decision to migrate my entire hosting infrastructure from co-located dedicated hardware to a full implementation built entirely on top of Amazon’s Web Services. I will be releasing a four part series detailing the tricks I’ve learned in my own migration to AWS and walking you through setting up your own …