I recently upgraded my cable modem from a Motorola MB8600 to a Hitron CODA56. Reason being Xfinity was emailing me letting me know I could upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 and get faster upload speeds. The Hitron CODA56 is the cheapest … Continue reading
In my experience the smaller the AWS EC2 instance the more often it freezes / completely locks up. Something goes wrong inside the AWS infrastructure and poof, no ability to SSH or do anything with it. This is regardless of … Continue reading
Having problems updating to Windows 10 1703, 1709 or 1803? If you have DiskCryptor installed the updates will fail with the unhelpful message `MEMORY_MANAGEMENT`. Then you’ll be trapped in a kind of Windows Update purgatory: Windows downloads update (30 minutes – 1 … Continue reading
With MySQL you can opt to connect to the database using an encrypted connection. This option is important to consider on AWS if you are using RDS for your MySQL database. The network between your EC2 server and the RDS server … Continue reading
The concept of a DBA – database administrator, has practically gone out of style as a full time job. DBA work, if it is being done, is handled by someone or something else, perhaps in a more vanilla way that … Continue reading
If you are using a sitemap.xml file you know you need to submit it to the search engines on a regular basis (say nightly). This is done via a GET request to each search engine’s ‘ping’ URL. Many of the … Continue reading
Having secure automated backups means a lot to me. This blog post outlines a way to create encrypted backups and push them into an AWS S3 bucket protected by MFA and versioning, all with one command. There are four parts … Continue reading
Ubuntu retains apt package downloads. It also default installs all locales (language packs). These can be freed up to reclaim as much disk space as possible. This should come in handy on VPS servers, especially the smaller ones backed by … Continue reading
Ssmpt is a light weight mail package that is easy to configure and suitable for my needs during local development. It is basically a mail forwarder, can’t receive email, and has very few settings relative to a program like sendmail. … Continue reading
Ubuntu has built in home folder encryption similar to OSX. I always turn on this feature on both OSs and have never experienced any perceptible performance hit. This guide shows one approach to migrating the MySQL data directory into the … Continue reading
