Building a Personal Website.

by VaidhyaMegha Posted on

This site is built using

  • Ubuntu
  • AWS : EC2, Elastic IP
  • Apache : 3 Sites, Virtual Hosts, a2ensite, a2enmod, mod proxy http, customized document Root
  • JRuby on Rails
  • JQuery
  • Twitter Bootstrap: JS and CSS
  • Google Drive: Docs and Presentations
  • Atlassian: Jira and GreenHopper
  • Git
  • Google Analytics
  • WordPress

Below is the sequence of tasks that I took thus far

  • Setup an EC2 node
    • Purchase a reserved instance of m1.large type
    • choice of m1.large was made based on three factors
      • Considerable memory may be required for the large number of applications that will be setup
      • Higher CPU may not be required given that the load will not be high
      • micro, small, medium may be too small for the memory requirements and m2.xlarge would be too high
    • Purchase a reserved instance of shortest term possible (In this case I purchased a node from a 3rd party for 1 month term)
    • Consider a heavy utilization instance since, the node has to be up and running all the time and load cannot be predicted.
    • Take Ubuntu 13.04 AMI
  • Setup Apache
  • Setup MySQL
  • Purchase and Configure a domain name
  • Purchase Jira Starter license and Setup Jira with MySQL as backend
  • Setup WordPress with MySQL as backend
  • Setup a private repository on bitbucket.org to host website project
  • Configure website with Twitter bootstrap starter template
  • Configure website to centralize all content

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