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Manage AWS Resources & Reduce Costs with aMiSTACX Shhhhh. Our new Area 51 [A51] Management panel for AWS resources is in Beta testing. What is A51? You will be able to manage all of your aMiSTACX resources and RDS instances from a single management dashboard! All included with the use of any aMiSTACX server. Features: […]

What’s new and on the way – October 2018 Can’t help but having a little spooky fun on the 13th of October. So much excitement in the air! What’s Coming Soon: Laravel 5.7 [Released – 10/15] Matomo 3.6.0 [Released – 10/15] Windows Utility Server 1.3 [Released – 10/16] Area 51 [A51] Dashboards Beta [TBA] – […]

Purge PageSpeed and or Redis Caching from WordPress Dashboard We are delighted to announce the availability of our first WordPress public plugin! Although very simple in design, the plugin is designed to tackle some not so obvious difficulties when using WordPress with PageSpeed and/or Redis Caching. Truly PageSpeed is a complex module designed for Apache […]

WordPress WooCommerce Case Study – New Site – New Idea Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, owner of sexyeyes.me, Jolie & Gerri, approached aMiSTACX wanting to know just about everything on how to start an online ecommerce business. Sexyeyes.me has an interesting story to tell. Not only is it a revolutionary new device in the huge […]

Increase Performance for Magento & WordPress Migrating to aMiSTACX Vijay, owner of modernfurniturepro.com [MFP] first reached out to aMiSTACX in early September asking for help with a migration of Magento [vitoitalia.com] to aMiSTACX on AWS. Pleased with the results on that project he requested another migration from “So Slow Hosting” to aMiSTACX on AWS.   […]

Magento 2.2.6 aMiSTACX Gen III Performance Stack September 26th, our new G3 stack for Magento 2.2.6 OSE was released. We are very excited about our new G3 performance stack, because we are introducing some awesome new features and designs: HTTP2 Apache 2.4.34+ w/ MPM Event Support for Amazon’s AWS new T3 EC2s. Magento 2.2.6 & Magento […]

We have this seen this happen more than a few times with our Mac customers using their built-in SSH CLI client utility. This is a client-side issue, and is generated when your client connects to different servers using the same AWS IP address. For example, say you spin up aMiSTACX for Magento with EIP Address: […]

AWS MySQL / Aurora Read Replicas for Magento August 2018 – As part of our new Titanium Series, and to compliment our S3Rocket S3 auto scale module, we are expecting to release our new S3Sonic Module in mid-August 2018. This new HA module will allow the configuration and use of AWS Database Read Replicas from […]

Improve TTFB for Magento and WordPress aMiSTACX July 2018 – Seems of late that TTFB is the focus of many. Well for aMiSTACX it is important, but not the Golden Grail of high performance stack building. We prefer overall speed and reliability to just how fast TTFB can be. [Reminds me of a post on […]

aMiSTACX S3Rocket Magento Configuration and Performance Tips July 2018 – With the release of our new S3Rocket Module for AWS S3, horizontal scaling is now possible when used in conjunction with RDS, an AWS Loadbalancer, and with an AWS auto scale group. The module is designed and should be administered only by admins and developers […]

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. No Speed Plugins! No Exotic Local Server Caching! Just aMiSTACX […]

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 […]