Post aMiSTACX Deployment Checklist

Although you are responsible for your AWS and aMiSTACX environment, we wanted to put together an abbreviated post deployment checklist to help remind you of areas that are commonly overlooked for security and performance.

[Solved!] How to prevent RDS auto-restart.

We don’t know why AWS RDS auto-restarts every seven days, maybe for maintenance, or just to help add some $$ to the AWS coffers. AWS recently added their nag modal to help remind AWS customers that even if they stop RDS, in seven days it is going to restart. Most of us in our busy… Continue reading [Solved!] How to prevent RDS auto-restart.

Service Unavailable Friendly Page

Let’s face it. It is kind of embarrassing when our e-commerce site goes down with an ugly “Service Unavailable” message to your customers. Either on purpose for maintenance, or without your knowledge due to a system fault, the default “Service Unavailable” or Magento error pages are just very uninformative. A low cost DIY aMiSTACX solution… Continue reading Service Unavailable Friendly Page

AWS EC2 and RDS Alerting and Monitoring

A51 accounts can now take advantage of simplistic but powerful monitoring, alerting, and health checks on aMiSTACX stacks, and on non-aMiSTACX AWS EC2 servers. How much does downtime cost your business? Hundreds? Thousands? How are you, or your IT team informed of an issue that impacts your site? Do your customers tell you? Or maybe… Continue reading AWS EC2 and RDS Alerting and Monitoring

Magento 2 FPC Booster

If you want to go to war with your competition, or build a Shopify killa site at a fraction of the hosting cost, then you must make use our Ramjet FPC Booster. With over four and half years of extensive deployments and continual improvement from feedback from our customers, Ramjet just adds amazing performance to… Continue reading Magento 2 FPC Booster

A51 Management Console for AWS

Manage AWS Resources & Reduce Costs with aMiSTACX Our A51 Monitoring & Control dashboard for AWS resources is now available to all aMiSTACX customers. The A51 dashboard is included with your aMiSTACX AWS EC2 Marketplace pay-as-you-go subscription. [New customers, please wait 24-48 hrs before you attempt to register.] What is A51? You will be able… Continue reading A51 Management Console for AWS