Embed RSS Feed Into Webpage / Embed anything

https://www.michaelhartzell.com/marketing-insights-ezine/how-to-embed-rss-feed-into-website-for-diy-entrepreneurs


Boiled down to this:
http://feed.informer.com/ - trying first... cuz it's free..
NEGATIVE... turned out not to work, plus it was like ANCIENT html code lol

https://feed.mikle.com/ - legit, cheap, and easy - works great, looks like it can be made to be sexy... basic is $9 / year... yeah, we got a winner

And here's how to embed anything else, lol:

https://www.labnol.org/internet/how-to-embed-in-html-webpages/6365/

I'm feeling back

Just saying

Creating a more permanent webserver

Started w/ research...

What is the best EC2 instance to use with a WordPress website?

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Jon Green, AWS consultant; Cambridge AWS User Group organiser

Answered Mar 14, 2019

Here’s the Big Secret:

It doesn’t matter!

Crazy, right? Well, not so much.

Start with your database. This is the powerhouse for your WordPress site. You don’t need a massive store, so use RDS. The next question is which database to provision. Your best choices here for WordPress are MariaDB, MySQL or Aurora (in MySQL mode). Aurora will cost you about 2.5 times the other two, but is seriously robust and performant. Which you choose will depend on how business-critical your site is.

Create a new VPC subnet for your Wordpress stuff, and launch your database instance into that subnet, with no public IP address. Think of a name for this database instance, and set up a DNS name to point to its private IP address. Configure the database and tables you’ll need. You may need to attach an Elastic IP temporarily, but remember to remove it when you’ve finished: you don’t want your DB world-visible.

Next, start any old EBS-backed EC2 instance type within your WP subnet, and set up WordPress on it. This one will have a public IP address. Whether you use a pre-cooked Marketplace AMI or start with a basic Amazon AMI and add your own packages is up to you. Configure your WP instance’s WordPress setup to connect to your database instance using the DNS name, rather than using a local database.

Set up the rest of your WordPress installation. Put your fixed assets into S3, not locally, and reference them using their S3 URIs.

Test it all works, and that you can use your site from the outside world.

Now save your WP instance as a private AMI.

From now on, you can launch a new instance from this AMI, and point your website domain name to it. If the instance is too small, use the AMI to template a bigger one, point the website domain name to that, and terminate the smaller one. (Your assets are in S3, and your database isn’t on that instance, so you’re safe to do this!)

If you find you need a more flexible approach, create an Elastic Load Balancer that can launch more instances at need, shut them down when loads dwindle, and distribute the workload amongst them, and point your website domain name at the ELB instead.

Finally, if you find you need to do updates (security, etc.) on your WP installation or its operating system, create a new instance from the AMI, make the changes, save a new AMI, and tell your load balancer or DNS configuration to use this instead. Keep the old AMI around for a while in case the new config breaks things.

Oh, and do back up your database from time to time, but that’s a different answer entirely.

OMG - it can't be this hard...

Followed by Cloudways!  It set it all up, free, no hassle, and works with AWS.  So, that's awesome - they do all the work for me!

...and then I found out I can't edit my own .php files properly in SSH.  Fuck.

Enter, top 14 list!  https://www.whatsthehost.com/best-cloud-hosting/

...yeah, fuck that.  going back to Cloudways.

Figured it out!  VARNISH feature is what was fucking it up.  Turned that off and it works now.  Interesting.

DNS is setup.  @, www, and blog are all set.  DNS moved to GO DADDY.  AWS a

Now i have

My life is run by a 5-year-old throwing a tantrum

 So - trip down memory lane here.

In pre-school, I was sitting in the back of the carpet, goofing off with the kid next to me.  All the other kids were sitting down, looking forward and listening to the teacher.  I knew what was going on - I just didn't care about that.

Then I was put on time-out and for the first time, something was wrong here.  I was upset - how dare she stop my fun and take me away from all the kids!  I demanded to know what happened.  She said "You're not paying attention."  I didn't know what that meant, so I said "what does paying attention mean?"  She didn't answer - probably cuz I was being a smartass little tantrum kid - but for me, that was WTF IS THIS.

..."YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION"... come on... I KNEW what she meant, I already understood the situation - I just couldn't be with that communication.  I was goofing off when everyone else was following rules that I was ignoring.  I even enjoyed bringing the other kids into my world, as opposed to needing to live in theirs.

Not knowing what the word attention meant wasn't the issue.  The issue was I was goofing off and I got in trouble.

But that lady was a bitch, fuck her.  What she did, or the way she did it, was wrong.  Unjust

So… I challenged her tone.  What do you mean, pay attention?  What does that even mean?

I basically threw a tantrum.  It's what 5 year olds do, right?

I decided that I wasn't wrong for not paying attention, she was wrong for being mean, and the rules and structure itself was all wrong.

Who cares if I was wrong - YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S FUCKING WRONG.  YOU'RE A FUCKING BITCH.  THIS PLACE SUCKS.

Skipping back to the here and now... my life is run by a 5-year-old throwing a tantrum.

The first time I faced organized structure, the decision I made was that goofing off was fun and great and these assholes making me do shit suck.  lol

I really got that I was having a great time and that my fun was better than living by their rules.

So now, I've been failing to build a business for 10 years because at some point I always stop.  Cuz what I'm doing isn't "freedom", it's "work", and I feel "trapped", and it's a "struggle".

The struggle, though, only exists because I won't accept that I'm having a tantrum.  I'm an adult.  It doesn't look good to be ruled by "I don't wanna!!  Waaaaahh!!!"  I can't be a failure, a loser.  So I create a struggle.  "It's not my fault - I'm trying - but it's hard for me."

Looks real good, much better that way.

The struggle JUSTIFIES the tantrum way of being.  It justifies a being that's all about doing what I want.

Today, you're still ruled by a 5 year old having a tantrum.  Anything you don't want to do, there's always an excuse - it's never your fault that you didn't do it.

• With entrepreneuring, that looks like 'THIS IS WORK!  I WANNA PLAY!!  FUCK THIS'
• With calls, that looks like 'I HIT MY FUCKING BUDGET, I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.  YOU'RE BEING AN ASSHOLE'

"She would've died like that.  Shit.  All the pain is pure bullshit, pure bullshit, nothing authentic about the pain, not an iota of it.  It's all there to make you right.  The pain's not so attractive anymore is it?"