Where to Go Next with your Freshly Installed Ghost Server
Now that you have Ghost running the steps from here are very dependent on what you specifically want to do with the database.
I'll walk you through some common areas you might find yourself when you need to troubleshoot errors that are happening as you integrate and deploy Ghost in your applications.
This was great! Clear, straight-forward and erred on the side of over-communicating rather than under-communicating which is also great! One of egghead's best.
A future course I for one would be interested in seeing would be how to connect a domain to an EC2 instance in as generic a way as possible (i.e. not dependent on a particular registrar), and in particular, how to set up a TLS certificate for https (perhaps with Let's Encrypt as the certificate authority.
Super minor feedback (I mean, the course was basically flawless) would be to add the end result to the intro: "This is what we will be building in this course: here is Ghost, open source blogging software running on an AWS EC2 instance on the free tier."
I look forward to more courses from Sam Julien!
Hey Rendall, thank you so much for the kind words and helpful feedback!
This looks like a useful introduction to both Ghost and AWS. I watched the last segment — where do we go from here. It would be useful I'm sure. But, what I need is somewhat different. For me, Ghost is great as a user, but expensive to run unless running serverless. I think a great follow on course would be: "How to convert your AWS Ghost site to a serverless sight using Lambda and serverless RDS or Aurora." That would, I think, result in a very economical Ghost installation. I realise, that many could simply run the free tier, but many can't and in any case, it would ve a great case study as the Ghost system is clearly defined and widely used.