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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Opening MySQL For Remote Access
A problem that I seem to have dealt with regularly for the last month is clients wanting to access their database servers remotely – so I thought a blog post on what you need to do and the potential pitfalls … Continue reading
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How To Best Utilise A Dedicated Server With Cloud Server Management Software – 5 Simple Tips!
Server Images By using the snapshot feature of the cloud manager, you can take a snapshot image of your live server and use that image to create a server for testing your software updated. As a test server you’ll only … Continue reading
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Cpanel 11.32
Yesterday saw the release of cpanel 11.32. The new control panel has had the following improvements added: Mail Queue Manager The ability to take action on multiple messages of the user’s choice. The ability to search the mail queue and … Continue reading
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Growing your solution – Part 1
Some websites will always need more resources than others, this is either due to the codebase or because they are getting more popular. As sites get more popular you may find that they start to effect the performance of other … Continue reading
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Amazon – RDS High Disk Usage & Logs
Recently we took over support of an Amazon solution. It consisted of some web servers(EC2) and a database server(RDS). When we looked at the RDS disk size using CloudWatch – we saw it was eating up about 5 gigabytes a … Continue reading
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Generating A CRT For SSL Certificate Renewals
Following on from my post at https://forlinux.co.uk/expertise/blog/2011/11/10/how-to-generate-a-csr-for-an-ssl-certificate/ you can also generate a new CSR (Certificate Signing Request) without having to fill out all of the company details all over again. To do this you will require the existing certificate (.crt … Continue reading
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Safely Erasing Data
If you need to reuse or recycle a server it is critically important that any sensitive data on the hard drive is erased and rendered completely unrecoverable. There are methods of rebuilding and recovering data even from formatted drives, so … Continue reading
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CLI one-liners explained
If you want to cut a specific number of characters from the end of a string in bash, you could use following construction : rev | cut -b 4- | rev For example, piping it with a command that gives … Continue reading
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ForLinux proudly presents: The Classic Bikers Club Network
In 2011 we were approached by Mortons Media Group Ltd to help create a solution to handle over 100 years of historic content from their various publications. Today, we are delighted to announce that the Classic Bikers Club Network has … Continue reading
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