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  • Goodbye, Bitnami: Migrating My WordPress Blog with the Help of ChatGPT

    Ralf Peter Reimann (ralpe)

    Goodbye, Bitnami: Migrating My WordPress Blog with the Help of ChatGPT

    After AWS Lightsail marked my older Bitnami-packaged WordPress image as no longer maintained, I migrated ralpe.eu to a modern server. The entire process unfolded in dialogue with ChatGPT—from moving WordPress and transferring SSL certificates before the static IP switch to configuring renewal and investigating unexpected server outages.

  • Ralf Peter Reimann (ralpe)

    Installing Bitnami WordPress Multisite on AWS Lightsail

    Update (October 2026): I have since migrated ralpe.eu from the older Bitnami-based installation to a newer AWS Lightsail environment. Read the follow-up article: Goodbye, Bitnami: Migrating My WordPress Blog with the Help of ChatGPT. This is how I walked through the installation process. Here are the links I followed:

  • Ralf Peter Reimann (ralpe)

    Pocast einfach gemacht als WordPress-Plug-in

    Nun gibt es mein Blog als Podcast – https://ralpe.eu/feed/amazon-pollycast – und auch die einzelnen Posts sind als MP3 in einem Player verfügbar. Dafür nutze ich das WordPress-Plug-in AWS for WordPress. Da ich mein Blog auf AWS hoste, konnte ich den Podcast über das bestehende AWS-Konto einrichten. YouTube-Tutorial Das Video-Tutorial führt gut durch das Set-up auf…

  • Ralf Peter Reimann (ralpe)

    Migration from WordPress.com to a self-hosted Blog on Amazon Lightsail

    Why Amazon Lightsail? I started my blog ralpe.eu seven years ago on WordPress.com. It was easy to set up, I could use the blog right away and it was only 13 bucks a year to map my blog’s domain ralpe.eu to the domain theonet.de provided by WordPress.com. For a long time I was happy with…