systems-administration
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Two easy ways to check your website’s loading time
If your website is loading slow, you have long or slow loading times. It’s good to check your website for this problem every month at least to make sure your blog doesn’t become sluggish due to a bad plugin, unoptimized image, or some broken tag. If your blog is hosted with the big boys, this…
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Another reason I like HostGator
When you add a new domain to your account, there is no crap about verifying the domain. Why do hosts care anyway? All they need to do when adding a domain to your account is to let you add the domain, and if DNS sends someone to their site looking for a given domain that…
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Move to the Cloud? The two Decisions that Matter
I found this excellent article about “moving to the cloud.” If you’ve ever considered moving, or are in the decision making process right now, this is a great article that highlights a few key points. Budget, time and needs. Do you really need all that proprietary software in-house? The software you pay thousands and thousands…
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Wappalyzer Helps Webmasters Identify Software
A good webmaster in the proper sense of the word, is adept not just with hosting, but with all aspects of hosting a website. It is critical to understand webservers and supporting applications. From Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, to IIS (yuck) and even Tomcat, to PHP, javascript and Linux. The whole webstack, yes, a good systems…
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CSS and HTML Basics
I’ve been spending some time recently helping people out with their websites and I thought I’d post a few tips on CSS basics. Let’s cover the difference between ID and Class when we’re talking about CSS. IDs… IDs should be unique per page. IDs are selected with the “#” symbol Classes… Classes can be shared,…
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MySQL Workbench, GUI for MySQL
So a while ago, I posted about MySQL Administrator. My favorite tool to access MySQL visually. In case you didn’t know, MySQL has been retired in favor of a newer tool. If you’re looking for MySQL GUI tools, you might want to take a look at MySQL Workbench. MySQL Workbench lets you Develop, Model and…
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Little known Open Source gem to sync your files
We’re quickly turning into a cloud-based internet society. We want everything available online, everywhere we go. That has its benefits, for example, you don’t need to carry around your laptop all the time if you want to access your files. Dropbox, you can just use your mobile phone or another computer that is handy to…
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The hackers know this, but do you?
Reality check Part of your job as a System Administrator or Website administrator is to ensure the work you do is safe from attacks and vulnerabilities. Remember that movie where Michael Moore goes around in Canada trying to open doors because he heard that people there don’t lock their doors? Do you remember what happened?…
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Vyatta, OpenSource router
I’ve found one of the gems of the Open Source world, if you’re looking for a competitive and feature rich router, you should consider Vyatta. Recently I installed it and configured to be my home router. Its also worth mentioning that even though you don’t need much for your home network, Vyatta can also compete…