#lightsail

2025-11-29

🚀 New Video Tutorial!

I’ve released a complete walkthrough on deploying OctoJoom on AWS LightSail — including Docker, Traefik, Cloudflare DNS/SSL automation and Joomla 6 auto-deployment.

If you're building Joomla sites with modern DevOps tooling, this tutorial will save you hours.

🎥 Watch the full video:
youtu.be/YgNVX2i-pL4

#Joomla #DevOps #Docker #AWS #LightSail #Cloudflare #Traefik #Linux #OpenSource #VDM

Daniel Fischercosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-09-02

Lightsails for Interstellar Travel - Photonics for Propulsion, Thermal Management and Stability: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsph -> "Substantial scientific and technological advancements have enabled lightsails to be the frontrunner for feasible interstellar spacecraft, making the #lightsail endeavor one of the most promising and exciting scientific pursuits in the twenty-first century. Looking forward, further progress must be made across numerous fields of science in order to bring lightsails to the next stage of viability. [...] We see the lightsail project shifting the paradigm of space exploration in the twenty-first century, inspiring generations of scientists at the boundaries of scientific and technical capabilities."

Lightsail concept art and order of magnitude of parameters.
Steven Rosenbergpassthejoe@ruby.social
2025-07-16

Did AWS Lightsail used to offer FreeBSD on its menu of OSes? I looked in on the service recently and didn't see that among the choices.

#AWS #Lightsail #VPS #FreeBSD

Steve DuncanSteveDuncan
2025-02-09

While did more of the work, and made it fairly easy, left me feeling are more in control. Glad I made the switch.

2025-01-06

Anyone running #drupal on #aws #lightsail here? I want to install a module, but the composer commands I run don't seem to work. Is there something different about how these systems are installed vs others?

Steve DuncanSteveDuncan
2024-09-29

Well this is driving me mildly crazy. My created-from-scratch Lightsail Wordpress instance keeps redirecting to the old Wordpress.com site. Unless I'm in a private browser window. Then it works. I've cleared caches, web history, etc. in safari but no luck.

2024-07-21

I run this blog on a small Amazon Lightsail instance (1 GB RAM, 2 vCPU). Cheap!

Most of the time, it’s fine, but it has a bad habit of dying sometimes on a large image upload. The Jetpack app reports the upload as failing (offering to try again) but my site is completely unresponsive. I can resolve this in one of two ways: either I can still SSH into the box, and restarting PHP with sudo systemctl restart php-fpm recovers and I can try the upload again; or the instance isn’t responsive to SSH and I have to reboot it via the Lightsail console. The CPU utilization is elevated during this period, eating into the burstable zone.

I have seen generally better performance since I updated /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf to override pm = static and pm.max_children = 2, but something was obviously still wrong. I installed atop since I often couldn’t get on the host to see what was happening right when it was stuck.

Last week, while working on a new post, my instance got wedged in the same way while trying to upload a short video. From the JetPack activity log I could see it became unresponsive at 11:42 PM Seattle time; the instance and atop use UTC so I’d need to look at the minutes leading up to to 0642 in the weekly atop log. That looks like this:

Well there’s my problem! php-fpm spikes in CPU, and then kswapd0 pegs the CPU while the instance’s local disk goes wild with reads trying to keep up. One odd thing is while the memory is low, it doesn’t seem to have changed much for the two php-fpm children. I guess I either need to tune the swappiness on my host or try to put a better clamp on PHP processing images? Need to investigate further.

I’m sure the real solution is to not host my own LAMP stack, but where’s the fun in that?

https://blog.ultranurd.net/2024/07/21/investigating-failed-wordpress-uploads/

#amazonLinux2023 #apache #aws #debugging #httpd #lightsail #linux #phpFpm #wordpress

2024-05-03

TIL: #AWS #Lightsail charges occur also for stopped instances.
#WTF

Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM:vees@epistolary.org
2024-02-02

"Starting on May 1, 2024, all new and existing [AWS] Lightsail instances that include a public IPv4 address will be subject to our revised pricing. IPv6-only instances are now available for workloads that do not require a public IPv4 address." #AWS #LightSail #IPv6

Miyuru Sankalpamiyuru@ipv6.social
2024-01-17

Just tried out #lightsail for research. It has IPv6 support by default. 🤩

#aws

2023-09-30

Updated AWS::Lightsail::Container PrivateRegistryAccess

Use the PrivateRegistryAccess property to describe the configuration for a Lightsail container service to access private container image repositories, such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) private repositories.
docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFo #lightsail #cloudformation

2023-09-29

Updated AWS::Lightsail::Disk Location

Use the location property to specify the location of the disk, such as the AWS Region and Availability Zone.
docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFo #lightsail #cloudformation

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