{"id":28,"date":"2023-09-20T00:03:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T23:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ianrae.me\/?p=28"},"modified":"2023-09-20T00:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T23:06:20","slug":"ians-blog-first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianrae.me\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/ians-blog-first-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian&#8217;s Blog; First Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So why a blog?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have worked in the IT Industry for a long time and over the years have accessed a number of blogs to either solve a specific problem or to share with colleagues or just to learn from. So it feels like maybe it&#8217;s time to have a stab myself and maybe even help out someone else. Kind of paying it forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m starting it with few expectations, I don&#8217;t know how much time it will take or what commitment I can provide. Or how much I&#8217;ll enjoy it or even how many people will read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll try to keep it relevant and entertaining. It will be my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where is it hosted?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well I have this &#8220;spare&#8221; EC2 instance in AWS and I wanted to do some self learn on working with AWS and setting up a web server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve kind of had a domain, albeit not really, since the early 1990s when I became a customary of the now defunct <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demon_Internet\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demon_Internet\">Demon Internet<\/a>. That was back ion the heady days of the internet when, for a tenner a month, you could get dial up internet access <em>and <\/em>email over your analogue telephone line. I had the &#8220;domain&#8221; <code>ianrae.demon.co.uk<\/code> with email addresses like <code>ian@ianae.demon.co.uk<\/code>. These domains (any <code>*.demon.co.uk<\/code>) are now defunct I believe. I must have been a customer of Demon Internet for close to 20 years until I purchased the domain <code>ianrae.me<\/code> and hosted it initially with Web Hosting Scotland who were owned and operated by the entrepreneurial Helmut Watterott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Helmut closed down his Web Hosting Scotland (and Media Slave) businesses I moved to AWS. Hence the &#8220;spare&#8221; EC2 instance which has been gathering virtual dust for too long now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s it running with?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog is running on WordPress. I did look at a Ghost offering but with the minimum EC2 offering, Ghost was not running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do intend to blog about the set up process shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Will I Cover?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I intend to have a leaning to technical topics. As mentioned, good old Google has brought me to a number of pages explaining how to do something and maybe this site can help someone else that&#8217;s trying (e.g.) to set up a WordPress site on EC2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"59\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ianrae.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Demon_Internet.png\" alt=\"Demon Internet logo\" class=\"wp-image-24\"\/><figcaption>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demon.net\/\">http:\/\/www.demon.net\/<\/a>, Fair use, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=33650911\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=33650911<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s about it for now; I hope this does gather momentum and become useful in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/what-is-cloud-computing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d0.awsstatic.com\/logos\/powered-by-aws.png\" alt=\"Powered by AWS Cloud Computing\" width=\"291\" height=\"105\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18 September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why a blog? 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