DIY Guides for AWS

These how-to guides that will help you start an create a simple and cheap server solution that will cost around $20/month. These guides includes:

Introduction
Domain Name
- Purchase
- Configuration (DNS)
- Transfer from GoDaddy
Create and configurure your personal virtual server
- Remote desktop access
Hosting web sites / apps on a virtual machine (Windows Server / IIS)
Configure your first small business or personal web site
- WordPress
  - PHP
  - MySQL
Host ASP.NET Web Application
- IIS
- SQL Server
Send-Receive Emails
- Outgoing (local smtp / IIS), using:
  - Integrated Windows SMTP Relay Service IIS
  - or hmailserver (preferred)
    - Configuring DKIM for hmailserver
  - or AWS SES (Simple Email Service)
- Outgoing alternative
- Incoming (MX, txt, spf, pop, accounts, catch-all, …)
SVN Server
FTP Server
Network and Security
- Firewall
- private and public IP
Monitoring
- External tools to monitor your web sites
- Use CloudWatch Alerts to monitor cpu usage / credits
Troubleshooting
- Logging
- Performance issues
  - Memory
  - CPU Credits (on T2 virtual machines)
etc

You can get all that running, for about $20/month, on a EC2 T2.Micro Virtual Machine.

Let’s begin with…