Hi all! It's been a little bit since I've done a in-depth post, but I am back and I've got hopefully a great writeup for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is going to be a little bit of a different writeup because of how modular the components for AWS are so I will start with development and end with deployment and scalability. Hopefully this is a great resource for those looking at AWS deployment!

Development:
So the task at hand was to create a new website for work, that was scalable and would be able to host an active Community, eCommerce and Support Services. We began by creating our EC2 which is the server itself. With Amazon EC2 servers, you have a large variety of OSs to select from, starting at Amazon Linux 2 all the way to macOS and Windows. I selected a Linux Ubuntu EC2, as that is what I am the most familiar with on the Linux side and Amazon Linux 2 uses an entirely different package manager and firewall that I've researched and is a little more difficult to deploy and Apache or NGINX server. The next part of our Development Stack was to select storage requirements, networking components, and modular elements such as off server storage, cdn, load balancers etc. On our server, we allocated 30gb to host Wordpress, Apache, PHP 8.0.4 with modules and your basic odds and ends to get the Wordpress Framework up and running. Knowing that we will have customers all around the globe, I created an S3 attachment which in simple terms is a storage block that we are offloading all of our images, videos and other uploadable content. We attached a CDN on the S3, that way we get great SEO management and customers are able to visit our website and have content delivered as quickly and responsibly as possible. With an Amazon S3, you can use their native CDN service Cloud Front, or you can implement CDNs like CloudFlare as well. With the S3, we also have the website backing up to a separate bucket so if things crash, corrupt, or we need to continue to scale we will EASILY be able to scale up our server needs and redeploy with little to no downtime. The next step of our development process here in the next few weeks is to add on a load balancer, which will work with the CDN to help cache and serve assets so that the main server is not taking a total beating all the time, and add on RDS which is external database block storage, so we will be able to keep our database separate from the main server just for additional security and scalability options.

Deployment:
As we neared closer to launch day, it was super simple to port and migrate our domains and secure the server for live use. We had a few issues with Images caching between the CDN and the live version, but things quickly resolved themselves once GoDaddy made the official DNS transfer from our old host to our EC2 deployment. We also used Yoast SEO paired with SEM Rush and our SEO scoring with google is already up 25% from where we are and the organic traffic we are collecting is already paying for itself just optimizing our website, services and frameworks.

Scalability:
If you are looking at scalable development AWS is honestly an amazing route for you to consider especially if you are looking at eCommerce or Community Driven content. We will be able to easily upgrade our services, storage, hardware without a second of down time. There is a cost associated with all of this, but we went from spending about $600 USD a month to spending about $350-400 USD a month, so it is not cheap, but having the modular scalability is going to make it so simple for our business to scale as we continue to grow. I would love to show off specs, but since this is my job I can't share this information, but I can provide a TL;DR.

TLDR:

Deployment: 7/10 - The AWS console is a little intimidating at first, but they provide amazing documentation to get your EC2, IP, Storage and more created and associated together.

Scalability: 10/10 - Everything is separate from the storage to the IP, so you can easily upgrade and plug and play with little to no downtime!

Security: 10/10 - Amazon has thought of everything when it comes to security, so in my case only myself and my counterpart can access our SSH and console and it takes both of us to unlock or reset a password.

Price: 5/10 - Services is not the cheapest, by any means, but you get so much for what you pay for. If you can overlook the cost and/or are using this for clients that have a significant budget, this will be honestly an amazing route for you to investigate.

Overall: 8/10 - I highly recommend this solution, with some exceptions for smaller developers.

I'm curious. Are there members who have used Ivermectin or know of friends or family who have had experience with using Ivermectin for Covid 19?

Here is some basic info about Ivermectin:
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In summary it's a drug that is used by vets for treating animals for parasitic and similar diseases.  Most Governments in the world have warned their citizens to be careful to use it, and only under prescription from their doctor.  The argument is that the drug has been created for use with animals, and animals are different from humans.  Humans would need a different preparation of Ivermectin that has been specially prepared for humans.

There is a strong movement in South Africa who believes Ivermectin can be very effective.

Are there other members like me who are fed up with all of the ads in the middle of blog articles. It's become progressively worse since November last year to the point that I can barely differentiate between ad material and the content of articles!

I've disabled all of the settings for pop ups etc etc. Even went into ads by clicking on the cross to cross them out, and try to find a way to disable them. But not a chance.

Any suggestions for Chrome alternatives? I'm using Mozilla Firefox, which I find is a bit better but I like to have a backup like Chrome. I've just started to try out Brave last night. Any other or better suggestions?

It has been a good while since the idea of ipv6.But it is poorly implented in China.Recently my mobile carrier seemed dropping their ipv6 support - probably the reason might be ipv6 addresses are harder to be monitored by GFW and thus cutting off might be the best choice.

From the publicly available data*,the active ipv6 users percentage is 52.19% - at least for me I was in the rest.
* https://china-ipv6.cn/

So now I am wondering whether you guys have ipv6 support.In case you don't know how to test it,you can test at test-ipv6.com .

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Introduction: Hey, I am here to review my vps 10 which i have won in the recent giveaway and i know there is already a review made by deanhills but i think i would be provide much more details since i have used it almost for a month and i would like to share my experience with you guys aswell.

Lets start with the VPS specifications and then follow it with some benchmarks.


Here are the specifications of VPS 10 and their TOS and requirements but I don't agree with the Game servers Status: Not advised since its one of VPS which i would recommend for gaming servers but maybe the details are old not updated and if thats the case then i would request @deanhills to update it.


Geek Bench


Well, I think the geekbench overall score is a bit low and to be honest i have expected better than this but anyway it still better and working good for my usage.

Unix Bench:

Speed Test:

Just to remind you all that the VPS comes with 125mbps connection but its great to see that VPS connection speed is much better than mentioned.

READ/WRITE Speeds



Well, I have provided all the benchmarks which were possible for me to provide and i guess its enough for anyone to judge the vps by these benchmarks and i will share my experience as well with VPS.

Control Panel: Yeah you heard it right and we have got a panel as well with this vps and for me their control panel is much friendly to new users than other VPSs panels even than digital ocean etc ones.

Gaming Servers: Well the VPS ram is just 1gb but the vps specifications are quite balance and i can recommend it for small gaming servers since i am hosting a small gaming aswell and it doing well.

Rating: 9/10 I didn't find much issues with this VPS since its one of the perfect i have came across in post4vps VPSs and i am quite happy with this vps.

Thanks for reading

If you had any interest in becoming an eBay Seller the biggest problem you had before was how to receive payments. The only option was Paypal and if you are living in a country that hasn't got a Paypal withdrawal option then you are in trouble. So many had Paypal accounts made for this putting Philinese as a country and using fake identification info. That has come with a huge risk of sooner or later Paypal catch up with you and terminate your account which makes your eBay seller account impossible to use.

Now you won't have this problem. eBay has partnered with Payoneer and you can withdraw money to your Payoneer card, account, or to a local bank using their account. Unlike Paypal, they accept all countries which is a great advantage. Especially for Dropshippers now this method can be used.

Even I'm thinking about trying dropship on eBay. Till now I didn't try because of all this Paypal nonsense. Now maybe it's time to try that.

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Should do you use A Windows VPS or A Linux VPS?

I use 3 Linux VPS and 1 Windows VPS.