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You are welcome to connect with me. Abhishek Dujari
This is my archived blog where you will find content about early days of Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Development and Sysadmin.

Migrating Wordpress sites to Kubernetes part 1

March 11, 2020

I have too many old sites that I dumped Wordpress on years ago and forgot about. Eventually PHP ran out of style, or rather php5 which is…

End of WHOIS, thank you GDPR

May 30, 2018

As of May 25th the Whois database is dead. Be warned, this is not true for Country Whois i.e. the ccTLD like .in , .sg  etc still display…

Stackpath review

December 02, 2017

I was happy using Cloudflare Free but free does not offer any WAF. When I first signed up with Cloudflare they used to have these plans that…

Hetzner throwaway storage boxes

February 13, 2017

Found a good post on how to use the   rescue  mode in Hetzner to setup a Logical Volume that spans multiple drives. This plus vsftpd can…

Rails jenkins

February 06, 2017

Start by setting up a container/VM with ubuntu 12 LTS sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties sudo add…

Apache Storm and Twitter Heron

December 27, 2016

Twitter Heron  is an alternative to Apache Storm  with compatible API as it was developed from Apache Storm. The major difference I found…

WIP Home rack server space.

December 27, 2016

Finally got a metal storage rack that I will use as Rack space. About US$99. Finally so much space. Comes with removable half panels, just…

Crashplan versus Backblaze

December 25, 2016

Save time and money. Go Backblaze. Crashplan sucks, terrible speed and it has not improved in years. They are full of excuses about it…

DigitalOcean connectivity is great

November 04, 2016

If you read my posts you will realize I am a fan of Linode, have been for years. They are great and reasonable people. I decided to give…

Centos7 freezes on Disk activity

October 30, 2016

I was having this terrible problem that prevented use of my home server. I was starting to regret many things like buying a refurbished…

Can VPN improve connectivity for Gamers

June 08, 2016

Experiment I ran using AWS Cloud with OpenVPN seems to suggest Yes. It reduces latency for very bad routes. for e.g. 250 MS from Singapore…

Google Cloud first impressions

June 08, 2016

Finally I signed up for Google Cloud free trial. I wanted to setup GamingIO.com game servers in a way that I could manage it better. I found…

July is the data loss month

July 18, 2015

Earlier this month towards the end of June I lost my main drive on the desktop. It took me 2-3 days to figure out that it is not possible to…

Linode users get phishing emails

May 31, 2015

DNS hijacking or plain host hijacking is pretty common these days. It's a safe low-tech attack to get username and passwords of key hosting…

Wordpress for Cloud

April 06, 2015

I am bored. I have decided to code for Wordpress but instead of using the regular code base I am going to write a fork which is AWS specific…

DreamObjects follow up review

May 04, 2013

Let me quickly review what I found so far about DreamObjects. First the good stuff Using Apache Benchmark (yeah, screw you naysayers, it is…

Amazon AWS Website deployment Part 1

July 03, 2012

I will briefly describe the tools and idea behind using the Amazon AWS for Web deployments to it's full extent without overdoing it. This is…

Getting started with Drizzle

June 30, 2012

Drizzle  is an open source fork of MySQL, actually InnoDB only, that is designed to be faster and more scalable than the vanilla MySQL. I…