Amazon Web Service - AWS
Overview
- Create AWS account (free, but requires credit card)
- Create an Ubuntu instance (free, as long as you select the free EC2 variant, and your account is within the "one year free" grace period)
- after 173.678 Instance Hrs, I now owe $2.36 ($0.0116 / instance hr.)
- Install software on Ubuntu instance
AWS Life Cycle https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-lifecycle.html
Connecting in for the first time https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
For the Amazon Linux instance, use "ec2-user" for login and keypair file for authentication
Check available storage
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-27-115 ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 494152 60 494092 1% /dev tmpfs 504716 0 504716 0% /dev/shm /dev/xvda1 8123812 1101424 6922140 14% /
Check RAM usage
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-27-115 ~]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1009432 183080 826352 60 8864 120184
-/+ buffers/cache: 54032 955400
Swap: 0 0 0
yum check-update yum install apache2 sudo service --status-all
proc]$ cat version Linux version 4.14.77-70.59.amzn1.x86_64 (mockbuild@gobi-build-64001) (gcc version 7.2.1 20170915 (Red Hat 7.2.1-2) (GCC)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 22:02:45 UTC 2018 [ec2-user@ip-172-31-27-115 proc]$
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Red_Hat_Linux
mysql> CREATE USER 'new_mysql_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'THISpasswordSHOULDbeCHANGED';
Username JMerkle