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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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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

I have been scouring the internet for opinions and alternatives to what Java has to offer in terms of both ORM and non-ORM for database…

I have been getting familiar with Java a lot more than I had planned to in my career. It so happens I need to develop a standard set of APIs…

I have been using du  and df  with a bit of other bash  scripts to gather disk space usage information on my linux servers. I need to…

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…

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

For the first time I have started using LVM on my home server and things have been alright for an year. I am able to resize, replace disks…

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…

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…

After years of not having to deal with AWS except for my pet projects , I decided to visit the AWS Summit in Singapore. Its right here, I…

Sometime ago I wrote about my backup woes. I have used backblaze and crashplan simultaneously for backups of my PC and Crashplan for my Mac…

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…

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…

Ever since I found Backblaze, and I don't know why I did not find it earlier, I have been quite happy with money well spent. I currently…

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…

What is Offloading? Offloading is in gist, transferring the resource consumption from one infrastructure to another without affecting the…

Classic overflow problem. Bottom-line is that it's all about IO.... Logs hit both memory and disk. I should learn to take my own advice. I…

I was trying out the new PHP SDK for AWS and relearning the methods. While it works well on AWS I was a bit confused with DHO documentation…

A lot of providers will sell you 1 Gbps port with oodles of bandwidth. A test file download to boot. For most people that seems to be enough…

This is something I missed myself and discovered recently.  Happens to anyone. What you experience is that despite having Gbps port and…

As I have mentioned several times I now only use dreamhost for parking. and Keeping some of my older sites and databases as they are…

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

I happened to login to Dreamhost Control panel today to setup email forwarding. I  have mentioned before that the Dreamhost hosting I…

Recently I posted about Linode's Network and Hardware improvement project at no additional cost to customers. Linode has further announced…

I have posted earlier about Linode  and it's lack of performance on my node as time went by.  However in the recent few weeks it…

For the past few years websites have really grown and outgrown. If expired domains is any indication there are more websites born than…

I just received email from one of my server providers in Europe "Hetzner" who I have used for over 2 years. I have a rather old server…

In response to a Homeland security alert released today  I wanted to quickly post on how to disable java or remove it if you are super…

I have had this site hosted on Redhat Openshift for almost an year. Considering I got this hosting free (and you can too) I was a bit…

There is already a nice port of the rewrite rules for lighttpd available somewhere on the gallery2 site. I found it quite a challenge to get…

Despite most my work involving PHP setup I have found python to be the most useful tool for a whole bunch of supporting tasks. One of them…

Recently in discussion I noted several admins and managers complain that AWS autoscale is not really cutting it for them. Some of the issues…

Its good to have more information and installing, configuring or managing systems. As DevOps I find it often necessary to make things easier…

Scenario is this:  Django App is running on an instance with web server and has no SSL installed. SSL cert is installed on the ELB and…

Collected from experiences of self and other largely honest group of admins, AWS users group meeting (yes it's like AA, we all say our name…

Whenever I login to my CentOS6 dedicated server my logs say [ prettify ] su: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam _ fprintd.so): /lib6…

This week was especially eventful as I lost my workhorse of a hexacore 12GB RAM and 4.5 TB server to a double disk failure. Not just a…

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…

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…

This is not the best or perfect way, however this works for me and I was asked to share. This is going to be my first post. The AMI I am…

I decided it's not worth wasting time on Blogofile , awesome concept and a working S3 deployment plugin. Unfortunately I could never get…