I have more to do but I have bobbydurrettdba.com pointing to an Amazon EC2 virtual machine. Seems faster.
I still have email forwarding done on iPage and they still have the domain registration and dns.
I plan to work on the email forwarding next so all the something@bobbydurrettdba.com email addresses will be handled by AWS. Either that or just change them to my personal email address. Would be nice to use the domain since I have it.
Bobby
P.S. Jetpack was down for a good bit. Had to edit the php.ini file for some reason.
P.P.S. Jetpack was down again this morning. Changed from the certificate I got from iPage to a free one from certbot. Seems to be working now.
P.P.P.S. Looks like I got email forwarding working with improvmx which is free instead of doing something in AWS which is hard to use and costs money. Kind of nice because the certificate is free and now the email is also. So it is just the cost of the hosting and domain.
PPPPS Up on Amazon’s name servers. Transferring domain. Could be a few days but it is the last step to be fully AWS.
1/26/21 8:18 AM Phoenix Arizona time
Outgoing email is not working. So, no one will get notifications of new comments or posts including my replies to comments. Also I will not get any notifications from WordPress of my plugins. I am trying to figure out how to get this going. I have email forwarding working but I cannot get an email out of the EC2 instance.
2:15 PM
This might be fixed. I got a few emails out that had been blocked. They all went into spam. I am trying to get reverse dns setup so that may keep the emails from looking like spam.
1/27/21 8:10 AM Phoenix time
AWS got reverse dns setup and now email works well from blog to world including to my @bobbydurrettdba.com alias.
