Migrating a WordPress site from SiteGround to a self-hosted VM involved FTP and SSH transfers, MySQL dump and import, DNS updates, and Let’s Encrypt setup. This post details how I automated each step – verifying file integrity, syncing databases, cleaning SiteGround plugins, and securing the new server for full WordPress functionality on my own infrastructure.
Migrating a WordPress site from SiteGround to a self-hosted VM involved FTP and SSH transfers, MySQL dump and import, DNS updates, and Let’s Encrypt setup. This post details how I automated each step – verifying file integrity, syncing databases, cleaning SiteGround plugins, and securing the new server for full WordPress functionality on my own infrastructure.
This blog explores multi-cloud networking challenges, highlighting a real-world Azure-to-AWS modernization project. It emphasizes the importance of next-generation firewall marketplace appliances like FortiGate for standardization, secure connectivity, and automation, while addressing tools like Terraform and Python for seamless multi-cloud integration.
This blog explores creating a powerful VMware lab using a budget-friendly 24-core workstation, Synology NAS with SSD storage, and advanced networking setup, including a shift from Mikrotik to Fortinet gateways. A hands-on guide for cost-effective, enterprise-ready cloud migration and virtualization.
With Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware raising concerns about price increases, it’s crucial to explore alternatives like Hyper-V, open-source solutions, and cloud options. While I remain a strong advocate for VMware, I believe customers should have a Plan B ready to ensure flexibility and cost-effectiveness in their infrastructure strategy.
This research focused on assessing Oracle DBAs’ familiarity with cloud technologies (e.g., landing zones, IaC automation) and comparing it to cloud experts’ awareness of Oracle Database advancements (e.g., container/pluggable databases). Findings revealed a knowledge gap between the two groups. To address this, I plan a two-week intensive learning journey inspired by Oracle CloudWorld 2024. This includes re-deploying Oracle Database editions, exploring Autonomous Database, understanding Oracle Exadata and Real Application Clusters (RAC), and deepening my knowledge of Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA).
I’ve been waiting for this moment for two years, and at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, everything has finally come together. As a multi-cloud architect with extensive experience across all three major cloud platforms, I’m particularly excited about this opportunity because of my strong background in Oracle databases. I firmly advocate for keeping Oracle databases on their native platform when migrating to the cloud, rather than switching to competitor database engines. In this article, I’ll summarize the publicly available announcements and share what we know so far.
In this blog post, I share my journey from working as a wedding steadicam operator to building YouTube recording studios at home and in the Microsoft Budapest office during the onset of COVID. I offer insights from my early filmmaking days, navigating professional equipment, to refining a minimalist setup for online events and presentations during the pandemic. I also explore the challenges of mastering public speaking and whiteboarding techniques for effective content creation. Moving forward, I’ll provide more details on my evolving video setup to help others streamline their own studios.
I am running an advanced multi-cloud hands-on lab environment and sharing my experiences on cutting-edge technology to save time for everyone interested.
My primary instest is migration and modernization of VMs, containers and database workloads.
I am lucky to have great friends at both Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud and VMware. We agreed to record quick 2-3 minute videos seeking together the future of IT workloads.
