{"id":32,"date":"2021-12-11T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2021-12-11T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:13:53","slug":"third-post-this-time-under-my-own-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Third Post, this time under my own name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forget &#8216;user&#8217;, this is now &#8216;William&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email is now setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What have I learned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MX records are a pain in the neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing comes for free (not AWS SES, not Google Workspace, not anything useful in WP Mail)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I prefer DMARC and DKIM over SPF, mostly because SPF relies on overiding\/hacking TXT records with machine readable data; however, nobodies machine agrees.  I want to have SPF and Google Auth the same domain, but the records conflict [ugh].  DKIM and DMARC are structured to deconflict (DKIM via CNAME, DMARC via _dmarc.&lt;domain>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lightsail saves some effort, but there is still a lot to do to get a wordpress instance fully functional:  HTTPS (bncert), email (WPMail, AmazonSES, Google Workspaces), HTTPS again (because bncert only gets and configs the certs, it doesn&#8217;t update wp-config to use https), a couple of random IAM users (to get roles and keys for Polly and Translate on AWS plugin) and the SES IAM credentials.    It is nice that I don&#8217;t need to hand-manage the EC2 instance and load the software by hand, but be under no illusion that Lightsail WordPress is click-and-go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, right, and I&#8217;m still playing around.  Single-node, onboard database, one availability zone.  Zero redundancy, optimization, CDN, S3 buckets, EFS, VPC, split subnets, autoscaling, etc.  Hmmm, feeling like it is time to take a quick snapshot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget &#8216;user&#8217;, this is now &#8216;William&#8221; Email is now setup. What have I learned? MX records are a pain in the neck. Nothing comes for free (not AWS SES, not Google Workspace, not anything useful in WP Mail) I prefer DMARC and DKIM over SPF, mostly because SPF relies on overiding\/hacking TXT records with machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}