I’ve decided to get into Azure and get some certifications to make myself a more viable candidate for future positions. Personally I like AWS much better than Azure, but since most businesses use Microsoft learning Azure is pretty much mandatory for cloud computing enthusiasts.
So – we’re back – with a NEW spot instance!
Okay, I haven’t posted for a few months YEARS now – sorry!
I had been running this site on a (very) basic EC2 spot instance for a while, then I found out last month that the bid price was too low and it wouldn’t start. For some reason, AWS doesn’t let you just change the bid price – you have to create an entirely new spot instance. This isn’t that hard but if you haven’t done it for 4+ years, it’s a bit of a challenge.
Luckily I managed to get it all up and running, but it took looking at an AWS guide to get it to work.
What is with Webadmins in Japan?
Okay, this is just one example but I’ve seen this happen dozens (maybe hundreds) of times in Japan and I can’t figure out why. For some reason when a website has the prepended “www” in the FQDN, you MUST include the www when you enter the URL or it won’t work. This is really clumsy because it only takes a small tweak in your web server settings to automatically prepend the “www” to make the site launch properly.
I just heard about a great Python lab and the URL was www.startlab.media. Since virtually every site will prepend the “www”, I entered the root domain name, and this is what I got:
Nice to see they’re running nginix. So on the next run I prepended the “www” and the site loaded properly:
Ah, that’s more like it! Mind you, this is a minor point, but it’s a pretty basic one. I’m not quite sure why web admins in Japan consistently overlook this but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into this.