Tech My low-tech journey begins. It's safe to say I've been living a very technology heavy lifestyle most of my life, but lately I've been focusing on scaling that down quite a bit. This post is to share how I'm starting that journey.
IT Creating an AWS S3 Lifecycle Management rule to clean-up incomplete uploads. I was surprised to find a third of my AWS bill was being spent on broken files in S3 buckets, here's how I setup a rule to automatically clean them up using Lifecycle Management rules!
Mastodon Using GMail for your Mastodon SMTP server. Running a small Mastodon server and don't want to deal with SMTP providers who need you to setup DNS records? GMail might be the simple solution for you!
IT Archiving your data to AWS S3 Glacier storage. Looking for cheap storage to archive some backups that you don't plan on accessing but might need in the future? Well give AWS S3 Glacier a try!
IT Using AWS CloudWatch to monitor estimated charges [AWS Billing Part 3] The final(?) part of this AWS Billing series where I setup a monitor to alert me about potential billing concerns by reporting on estimated costs so I can course correct before they get expensive.
IT Create a Cost Anomaly Detection Monitor in AWS [AWS Billing Part 2] Part 2 of this journey to keep AWS bills under control! This time we're tackling possible anomalies to detect future billing issues once things are settled down and you get comfortable.
IT Create a budget in AWS [AWS Billing Part 1] One of the scariest things about public clouds are the bills. Even with the pricing calculators your bill can grow out of control quickly with a misconfigured service. Luckily AWS offers solutions to prevent this including the ability to set a budget and get alerted to avoid unexpected costs.
IT How to create a Google server for FREE! Looking for a little server that runs 24x7 for whatever various project you have? Did you know that Google gives out free servers? It's true!
Mastodon Optimizing Sidekiq for Mastodon 4.x Sidekiq is the application that processes all of the "jobs" on a Mastodon server. These "jobs" are every action your server performs including sending e-mail, creating posts, pulling posts for users to view, uploading media, updating profiles, setting filters, cleaning up the database, and so many more actions.
Mastodon Migrating your Mastodon PostgreSQL database to its own server. Ready for another Mastodon guide? Well today we're going to go over how to migrate your PostgreSQL database to its own server!
