Having an IM conversation with someone in Iran, turns out they "hate" Bush...so random. But I had to reply, "that's why I voted for Obama" 7 hrs ago
This somewhat requires you’ve followed my suggestions on not committing yourself to a certain host or your own DNS or mail servers, if not the extra steps might take you 10 more minutes, maybe days.
There are plenty of ways to migrate to a new server depending on how you’ve setup the server or your host, these are just to show the simplicity of my migrations after following the post linked above.
Step 1:
Rsync your other server’s files to the new…
There has already been a long debate about hosting your own DNS servers and mail servers but I’ve found once again relying on Godaddy total DNS management and using GoDaddy e-mail forwarding has made my three migrations over the last year a breeze. So I suggest to everyone:
Suggestion One:
Don’t mix your host and your registrar. You might not see your domain again.
For anyone looking to create their own site I urge you, never register your domain with your host. There…
I’ve completely neglected this site over the last week or two and I’m disappointed I completely brok my goal of posting every day. And it’s not that I don’t have much to post about either; I bought an iPhone, I’ve got a lot of tutorials for CentOS on Media Temples (dv) plan, I moved off of Trac and went with Warehouse for all my repos and there are some great projects I’m working on mostly all on Wordpress. There’s just…
I was just contacted by someone with a compromised server and I’m noticing that a lot of hosting companies just plain suck. I’ve seen a lot of hosting control panels and I hate all of them (except MTs), if you’re running a VPS or dedicated and everything is managed and controlled through a complex account manager something is wrong. [Link] (0)
Since I have such an elaberate setup for email:
The iPhone allows for makes setting up e-mail so easy for a normal GMail account, even Google Apps accounts work through the basic “GMail” setup…
I host a lot of wordpress sites for friends, family and business and one thing I’ve noticed is the collection of spam on some of these sites because they either don’t want to use the provided spam plugins, don’t maintain the plugins or just simply don’t care about their blog anymore.
Something I do regularly on my site but neglected to run on the other sites is running a SQL to delete the comments marked as spam in the comments table.
Instructions:
Open up…
One of the first things I did on my Media Tempe (dv) was install webmin because I’m a huge fan of easy it let’s you manage your web/server, e.g. web interface to quickly change config files or restart particular services without having to login through SSH.
A more official description:
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to…
Even though today was a half day, a Friday and I was able to play golf I still can’t shake how today was one of the worst days ever at work. A couple people made it clear to me that they do not respect my job as a system administrator when they told me to give some clueless employee *root* access to the webserver because he was “inconvenienced” when file permissions were limiting him to overwrite some html files. Tempers…
After finally setting up Trac and SVN on my new server I’ve moved all my projects off Google Code hosting. But instead of checking in all of the code to the new repositories I updated all of the theme and plugin pages. So the problem, you’ll not be able to download anything until tonight when I get around to updating the repositories. Unless you just want to head over to GCode (link above) where all the latest versions are, plugins…
The server migration went horrible and ok. The good: I was forced to migrate this morning because my current host all of a sudden dropped my memory or is having problems allocating memory to my VPS so all my sites were white screening. But since I was forced to move I didn’t have to worry about DBs being synced, the dumps and imports went well. And since I use GD for my nameserver it took 10 minutes to switch over…
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