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XRDP service error: Cannot read private key file

Mikhail | January 2, 2021

Recently it was necessary for me to enable XRDP service on Ubuntu 20.04 VM, so I followed the steps outlined in one of my old posts and get it working quickly. Unfortunately I run into some new issue with not being able to reset or shutdown Hyper-V VM for some reason, which I ignored for … XRDP service error: Cannot read private key file

How to check local Hyper-V VM generation

Mikhail | January 1, 2021

Seemingly Hyper-V Manager GUI does not show VM generation of already created VMs whereas we do need to check on that sometimes. As usual PowerShell is an answer to this problem: That command will output name of VMs and generation information as shown on a sample screenshot below: Command above need to be run in … How to check local Hyper-V VM generation

Migrating WordPress to Amazon Lightsail

Mikhail | December 28, 2020

I’ve recently migrated this blog to Amazon Lightsail along with moving some of my domains to AWS Route 53. Since I’ve started this blog I had it hosted in different places – Synolgy NAS device at my home, SiteGround, Gandhi… As I recently dived into AWS certifications it gave me extra incentive to use and … Migrating WordPress to Amazon Lightsail

Unable to connect over SSH to EC2 instance from Linux

Mikhail | December 21, 2020

Common issue which occurs when trying to connect to AWS EC2 instances from Linux machines is the following error: As you can see on the screenshot octal representation of pem file permissions is 0644 and it means that everyone has read-only access to the file while security best practice requires to limit access to private … Unable to connect over SSH to EC2 instance from Linux

AWS Whitepapers part 1 – Overview of Amazon Web Services

Mikhail | December 18, 2020

I recently passed AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam aka CCP aka CLF-C01. This was a first step and a part of my extensive learning plan for the nearest future. I still want to do a separate blog post on overall CCP exam taking experience and preparation and hopefully I’ll manage to do that before my … AWS Whitepapers part 1 – Overview of Amazon Web Services

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