More of my thoughts on moving to the cloud. I have my new ecommerce store software running on its own instance of a web server in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud system. My website is but a mere speck of fly poop compared to the power users on the service. I am pleased that there is consideration for the little guys like me. There are many ways to go and grow in the AWS...
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Growing Pains
I am really taking my bruises while hacking on my Amazon Cloud web server. But I like the abuse. I must be a cyber masochist. My cloud is called the Amazon Web Service (AWS). They provide their smallest server to hackers like me, with a first time free one year trial to play with their toys. It’s not REALLY a toy, but a “for real” cloud server. Actually as good as any server I would...
Continue reading...THMS Store Name Change
I have determined I will have to spend a lot more time developing the new store website to get it to where I want it to be. It’s not like I haven’t been planning this change-over carefully before the old store got caught up in DOS attacks. It has just happened a lot sooner than expected. The old website is again operational, and I have put it back on-line.. It WAS NOT damaged in any...
Continue reading...The Hobbyist Machine Store
The Hobbyist Machine Store was attacked last week with a Denial of Service (DOS) by one hacker at one IP address. This lead to an overload of services on the server that I share with many other websites. As you you know from previous posts this is not the first time or the first website I manage that has been attacked like this. My service provider was forced to shut down The Hobbyist Machine Store...
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