aMiSTACX

What’s in a name? aMiSTACX is now just a little over one year old, and as the company continues to grow with our motto Better – Stronger – Faster, and it permeates in everything we do. As such, it is time for our logo to reflect our growth, and become the definitive definition for automated […]

Getting your WordPress site over to HTTPS is essential these days. Not just for security and public awareness, but also SEO ranking appears to be gravitating towards HTTPS as a requirement. To switch WordPress over from HTTP to HTTPS literally should take under 5 minutes! Of course, that is assuming you are using aMiSTACX, and […]

aMiSTACX Ubuntu 16.04 Let’s Encrypt WildCard Certs Install Let’s Encrypt has been offering wildcard TLS certificates since the January 2018, and aMiSTACX has the Let’s Encrypt agent certbot-auto pre-installed. 😉 This should cover all of our Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP and LEMP stacks. From CLI: Step 1. sudo certbot-auto certonly –manual -d *.yourdomain.com –agree-tos –no-bootstrap –preferred-challenges […]

How aMiSTACX helped fashion retailer DJK NOT to break the Internet. If you haven’t heard of men and junior fashion retailer DJK out of Ireland, you soon will. He is destined to be a household name up with the greats like Diesel and Hilfiger. What sets him apart from everyone else is his story, and […]

Upgrade Magento 2 to the latest version using Composer [aMiSTACX] Upgrading Magento to another version is not for the faint of heart. Really. One of the tricks is to forgo the GUI upgrade wizard and use CLI and Composer. See just a lot less issues, more verbose language on errors, and the ability to skip […]

Turnkey WordPress 4.9.6 w/ WooCommerce and PHP 7.2 Our fastest WordPress stack yet ! New WordPress aMiSTACX F1 series high performance stack series features PHP 7.2! The upgrade to PHP 7.2 offers an average of a 7% – 11% increase of performance over PHP 7.1. Speed Test Pingdom Speed Test GTMetrix No Speed Plugins! No […]

Less than 24 hours after Magento announced their new Magento 2.2.5 OSE release, aMiSTACX has it ready to go on AWS Marketplace! This stack also uses our latest build and optimization methods to increase performance. Our fastest and most reliable stack yet for Magento. Additionally, we added PHP 7.2, so when Magento 2.x offers compatibility, […]

Ubuntu 16.04 Apache 2.4 Generate a CSR [Certificate Signing Request] An alternative to Let’s Encrypt Free Certificates is to use a purchased certificate. The advantages of a purchased certificate from a provider such as Comodo or Verisign are many. With Let’s Encrypt, you have to take your server offline for a minute every 90 days […]

Solved – One or more integrations have been reset because of a change to their xml configs. One of the most annoying messages to come from recent Magento 2 installs is the above message. Not only is it annoying, but it appears to slow down the loading of the Magento Admin console. The name of […]

Horizontal Scaling for Magento 2.2.5 w/ aMiSTACX S3Rocket Module We are currently Beta testing our new S3Rocket Module for AWS S3. This will allow serving all Magento (TM) media images from AWS S3. Resulting in faster performance, less local storage, memory and CPU usage, and a step towards the ability of Magento 2 to horizontal scale […]

Magento 2 Set Production Mode Error: /usr/bin/php7.1 -f /var/www/html/bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy You may see the above error when attempting to switch to Production Mode on Magento 2.x. [As you want to switch to production mode in a public environment so that exception printing is turned OFF.] Really the issue has to do with something being wrong, […]

How to Install Porto Theme on Magento 2.2.2 This article applies to aMi STACX only! Porto by Smartwave is one of the top selling themes next to Ultimo by Infortis. And of course if you want to get up and running in less than ten minutes the only way to go is via aMi STACX. […]

This article applies to aMiSTACX deployments, and is not meant to replace our admin guide that is provided with the stack. There are several possibilities on db connections for administration purposes. In this article, we will outline GUI phpMyadmin usage for both LAMP/LEMP. Depending on the version of your stack and the flavor – LAMP […]

We are on-time with the new Magento 2.2.4 release, and have it already available on AWS Marketplace. Appears Magento went very big on this new release with all types of fixes and enhancements! Check out the release notes >> We will do our best to get it out for our RDS version too! Better – […]

  We are very pleased to release our long awaited turnkey Magento 2.2.3 deployment with AWS RDS. This is truly a turnkey stack as with 1-click and 15 minutes you will have a full functioning Magento 2.2.3 deployment with RDS ready for sign-in. AWS RDS offloads the MySQL function to a separate instance, leaving more […]

If somehow you just launched our aMi STACX stack for Magento or WordPress, and you come to the database part and looking for an answer to what the user/password is… Well, it’s not here! That’s because this information is in the stack admin guide! Our Macey-Bot also has this information, and most product videos also have […]

We package, provision, and support our stacks in over 18 countries. Founded with the goals of providing premium scalable solutions that are simple to use, reliable, high-performance, and all within affordability. Our Engineers and support staff are ALL USA based, and we are also AWS GovWeb approved. Ask yourself, who do you want to be […]

Applies to [aMi STACX]. Sometimes you just need to update your WordPress store URLs because you are unable to access the website or the admin panel. Sometimes you just need to confirm what the WordPress URLs are. Luckly for aMi STACX users this process will take only a few minutes. All you need to do […]