{"id":1991,"date":"2013-02-19T04:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2013-02-19T04:26:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T12:26:41","slug":"arcanius-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/arcanius-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcanius Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having trouble sleeping, and the server behind some of the websites I administer went down a few days ago, so I&#8217;ve been on an upgrade tear. I just moved this blog from the industrious-but-odd win7\/vmware\/ubuntu hybrid minimus to a <a title=\"Amazon EC2 Instance Types\" href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/\">amazon micro instance<\/a> (<a title=\"AWS Free Usage Tier\" href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/free\/\">free for a year<\/a>!), presumably virtualized under something like <a title=\"The Xen Hypervisor\" href=\"http:\/\/xen.org\/\">Xen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All the sites that I&#8217;ve moved to this EC2 instance are noticably faster, and Checksum Arcanius is no exception: page generation times seem to be about 10x faster (based on WordPress&#8217;s self-reported times at the bottom of the page), and the page load just feels much faster overall.<\/p>\n<p>This is my first foray back into AWS since I played around with it during my Amazon internship in 2008. The experience has been incredibly positive. Amazon deserves tons of credit for what they&#8217;ve done with AWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having trouble sleeping, and the server behind some of the websites I administer went down a few days ago, so I&#8217;ve been on an upgrade tear. I just moved this blog from the industrious-but-odd win7\/vmware\/ubuntu hybrid minimus to a amazon micro instance (free for a year!), presumably virtualized under something like Xen. All the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}