I used this tool recently to calculate the transfer time of a zip file to an FTP server for a client. Worked quite well. TBH, didn’t actually confirm the time frame, but looks legit. File Transfer | The Cloud Calculator.
The below is my opinion and my reasons for not using Confluence any more. Check out their requests pages and feedback on Jira and you’ll find out how Atlassian simply piss off their users of the on premise version of Confluence. Pretty much any useful request comes down to: After feedback from many of their… Read More »
I thought that changing the adapter order in Windows Network Connections made Windows use the one that is listed first. Not sure why, but this seemed to work for me previously just fine. Today I was a client site and after installing and rebooting the PC, but 4G card still wasn’t being priorities. Turns out,… Read More »
Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I used some of the information in the following guide to install AWstats on my web server. How-to: AWstats installation and configuration on Debian.
I used the following guide to change from php-fpm to hhvm after doing some research on potential speed increase. The guide is great, however I may be changing back as for some reason I seem to have actually lost performance by changing over. Might be an incompatibility in a plugin or something in WordPress. Install… Read More »
I wanted to have more than Google Analytics working for my site so I can compare and contrast the figures. I’m using Ubuntu so a basic search of awstats ubuntu found the following site which made it a breeze to install. AWStats – Community Help Wiki.
I wanted to lock down my AWStats so only I could access the URL. [ubuntu] htaccess won’t secure a directory (AWSTATS).
Bit more help on configuring ubuntu/apache using .htaccess to require awstats to use a username and password. How to configure a web page to require a username and password.
Not used this yet, but thinking about it. Connecting WordPress and WebDAV | ITS Strategy & Architecture.
I don’t want the logins, or even the content of most of the sites that I manage to be available via HTTP, however as most of us don’t like having to add the HTTPS to the start manually, this works perfectly. General setup is Ubuntu with Apache2, MySQL, PHP5 and WordPress. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName… Read More »
I implemented Confluence by Atlassian at my previous job and found it extremely useful for collaboration between the techs. If only I could get the management/accounts team to utilise it as much as we did, it’d have been even more useful. Annoyingly, every upgrade required me to redo this. Unfortunately after implementing it at my… Read More »
Found this useful when someone has asked me to update their website, or when someone has lost access to their webhost through various reasons (old IT company gone bust, manager has left and no-one else knows the details etc). Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.
WordPress › Support » Php 5.3.0 & WP 2.8 (It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone).
Australia/Perth via PHP: Australia – Manual.
Sometimes file permissions can get a bit screwed up in your www directory in Linux. Maybe it was a command you blindly ran from doing some reasearch, maybe it was something else. The following guide helps explain how to fix it. Why WordPress Asks for Connection Info – Chris Abernethy . com.
php – problem with mcrypt installation – Stack Overflow.
CSR Generation: Online CSR Generator for Apache, IIS, IBM, and cPanel.
sudo a2enmod ssl proxy via Zarafa Free Edition Z-Push Mail Ubuntu 12.04 Server
ip4.me
RapidSSL Certificates
sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json via Transmission on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
As taken from the Mozilla support site. Grab the automatic backup of the bookmarks from your old user profile. C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\RANDOMCHARACTERS.default\bookmarkbackups\bookmarks-DATE.json Restoring from backups Caution: Restoring bookmarks from a backup will overwrite your current set of bookmarks with the ones in the backup file. Click the Bookmarks button Bookmarks button win 2 on the… Read More »
Using Windows Explorer Right-click on Computer entry and select Map network drive…. Choose a local network drive to map ownCloud to. Finally, enter the address to your ownCloud instance, followed by /remote.php/webdav, e.g. https://www.yourserver.com/owncloud/remote.php/webdav for an SSL protected server. Check Reconnect at logon to make this mapping persistent across reboots. If you want to connect… Read More »
Updating ownCloud — ownCloud Administrators Manual 5.0 documentation.