Month: April 2021

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This site runs on CentOS 8, on an AWS t2.micro EC2 instance. It’s all free tier at the moment as this is very much a trial run/learning experience.

It’s taken several attempts over the last few months to get the instance running nice and stable. I was getting regular out-of-memory errors, with mysqld just killing itself. It would then get caught in an endless suicidal loop because the restart of the service caused another out-of-memory error.

However, I’m not sure that mysqld was really at fault. I don’t think php-fpm was very well configured. When I set the site up I followed a few tutorials that didn’t really explain how to clean-up afterwards and I ended up running way more php-fpm threads/children than needed for such a tiny, low traffic site. Since I did that, I have not had a crash and have not had to restart the instance.

Chart showing EC2 memory used. It averages around 60% and tops out at 62%

Yesterday, I was finally able to get an AWS Cloudwatch dashboard set up that actually showed me what was going on. That part was surprisingly easy compared to setting up Cloudwatch itself, which, even following AWS’ on tutorials, was a bit of shot in the dark.

As I said, it all seems pretty stable now so I am adding new WP plugins etc very slowly so I can see if any one thing causes a problem.

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Watched Red Dragon (2002) from letterboxd.com
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

I feel like this does more right than wrong, but some of the wrongs are egregious. The music is SotL but the strings on the jump scares are just ?

And then there is that line about the hair. Initially, it’s a funny non-sequitur, then it’s like “make yourself look nice for me, that’ll make you feel better.” TAF?

The end is still pretty effective. Even on repeat viewings.

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Found a weird WordPress bug today. I exported ALL from my old WP hosted blog and imported everything here. It all went fine except all the Post counts for imported Tags in the Tags screen were zero. I found this old post with a similar problem but no solution.

I figured it just needed a nudge to force it to recount the Tags, so simply did a Bulk Edit and added a dummy tag to all my Posts. Checked the Tags and bingo! Then I just deleted the dummy tag.