So here we are… The final part of our series, our Alibaba Ubuntu 16.04 ECS instance is ready, we have NGINX, MariaDB, and PHP7 completing our stack. Our domain is configured and our site is protected with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. We are all ready to install WordPress, happy days! Completing the previous tutorials […]
Alibaba Cloud 3 – Let’s Encrypt SSL
Welcome to the third tutorial in this series about installing WordPress and a performant server stack on an Alibaba ECS Cloud Instance. In the previous two tutorials, we provisioned and secured our Ubuntu 16.04 server installation, then completed the LEMP stack with NGINX, MariaDB and PHP7. Today we are going to configure a Domain to […]
Alibaba Cloud 2 – Complete the LEMP Stack
This tutorial, the second in a series about setting up WordPress on an Alibaba Cloud Instance, will take us through completing the installation of a highly performant LEMP stack on our server. As before, it will serve just as well as a guide for achieving the same aim with most any of the other Cloud […]
Alibaba Cloud 1 – Secure an Ubuntu Server
This is the first tutorial of a series that will culminate with a fresh WordPress site running on an Alibaba Cloud Instance. In this tutorial, we will create and secure our instance running Ubuntu. Next we will complete a modern LEMP stack, with NGINX, MariaDB, and PHP7. Then we will run through Domain Management, adding […]
Genesis Framework Hidden Footer
If you scroll down to the bottom of this site, you’ll see that you can scroll past the content and my site footer will be ‘revealed’. Visually, the effect is that the site content is sliding up from infront of a hidden footer, it’s pretty neat and something I’d seen implemented on a variety of […]