If you’re serving up a static website from S3, especially if you have larger assets stored there, you may want to put monitoring on the requests or bytes downloaded from S3, just to make sure someone’s not running up terabytes of transfers or millions of requests. Enabling Metrics on S3 You will have to enable […]
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Monitoring your CloudFront #omgcat usage
Ok, so you’ve created a lovely static site and/or set up a CloudFront distribution for https for it. But CloudFront bills by the GB. What if somebody decides your assets are perfect to hotlink to or just straight up makes an insane boatload of requests? How do you protect yourself from getting a frightening bill […]
Adding a https to an S3 static site via CloudFront
Ok, so we’ve set up a static site hosted from an S3 bucket with a custom domain using Route 53. But sadly, it’s: Request a Certificate in Certificate Manager Go to Services -> Certificate Manager Click [Request a Certificate] In the window that opens from “Request or Import a Certificate with ACM”, enter your domain […]
Hosting a static site on S3 with a purchased domain
S3 Static Site Setup Creating buckets In your AWS Console, go to Services -> S3 Optional: Click [ + Create Bucket ] Type in a bucket name for static site logging (i.e., domainname.com-logs) Accept next all the way to Create Bucket Click [ + Create Bucket ] Type in your domain name (for example, “domainname.com”) […]
Running Linux on a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro
Apple and their aggressive EOL/EOS policies I have had an old mid-2009 MacBook Pro (2.26Mhz, Core 2 Duo P7550) that got left behind at macOS 10.11 (El Capitan). I’ve already gone through dealing with end-of-support with a 2011 MBP (no AirPlay server, no longer getting macOS updates, etc…), but the 2009 is old enough that […]
Planet Fitness Cancellation Template
Planet Fitness Cancellation Template in Word Document format.