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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. 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 July 23rd, 2018 –  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 through […]

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 aMiSTACX 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 aMiSTACX. We not […]

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 […]