As part of a recent project to upgrade some legacy infrastructure and split services across both Azure and AWS I found myself needing to migrate a UniFi instance. Previously hosted on a Windows 2019 Azure VM I was hoping to achieve a few things – I wont go into too much detail about the first … Read more
Having recently been migrating a number of web apps from a legacy IaaS Windows server VM setup over to Azure App Services a question arose around high availability / resiliency and specifically in the case of Azure – region resiliency. Sometimes having a complete HA / DR into a secondary region can be too costly, … Read more
Following on from my previous blog post showing how to configure PHP 8.1 based NGINX Azure App Services, another common change is wanting to update PHP.ini config to do things such as increase the max upload file size and timezone etc. When using Apache, PHP options can be set in the .htaccess file at a … Read more
As of 28th November 2022 PHP 7.4 will no longer be supported and as such users must migrate onto the latest supported version PHP 8.1. NOTE: Windows based Azure app services do not support PHP 8.1 and as such will no longer be supporting PHP after this date. So, in the various environments I manage … Read more
Recently I was tasked with migrating an ageing Ubuntu 14.04 server up to Azure with the chosen method being ASR (Azure Site Recovery). I was led to use ASR due to failed Azure migrate attempts with lots of undesirable results. One undesirable result that was consistent with both methods however was the serial console connection … Read more