Hosting a wiki server on an Amazon AWS EC2 instance#

So, this bliki thang is running on a reserved Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance. The only part of that link that isn't explained by the link is "reserved". Reserved instances are basically paying the bulk price for server minutes: you commit to a year or three of uptime, pay up front, and get a pretty big discount. So, basically, you get a server on the internet for not much money, and it'll never crash (where "never" means "99.999% chance of it never happening", if I can be sloppy with probability).

See this static web page, and, specifically, the note at: http://tarheel-nc.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/using-aws.html#orgdee9204.

Maintenance#

Looks like you can update all software via aptitude. Keystrokes: U (uppercase), followed by g.

(Don't know if this handles kernel updates.)

See also FreeUpDiskSpace.