Many web site owners have spent the last few months frantically trying to get their web sites to pass Google Core Web Vitals ahead of the anticipated rollout of their new ranking algorithm which now also includes how fast your web site is and how the overall user experience is. Words like Largest Contentful Paint […]
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Sep
Sep
I’ve been using Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for well over 2 years now. Of course, Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates are short-lived so need to be renewed every 3 months or actually well before the 3-month expiry arrives. This is why we check daily for any certificates needing renewal and automatically renew them. For obtaining and […]
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Aug
Aug
Some users struggle with getting external USB and even internal drives to auto-mount in Linux or to even mount them without you being asked for authentication, which, can be most annoying. The fix is rather damn simple. First, make sure your user is a member of the wheel group. To see if you are, simply […]
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Jul
Jul
There is much debate in the tech world regarding illegal characters in domain names. The most common question asked is regarding the use of the underscore _ character in domain names with many people confused, arguing about it or throwing RFC’s into people’s faces. Now while RFC’s are there for a good reason it doesn’t […]
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Sep
Sep
Most people running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) seem to always play things safe and stick with versions of software pushed out by the Ubuntu repositories. In most cases this is perfectly OK but not when it comes to a mainstream web server like Nginx which if you are running the repository version from Ubuntu you are […]
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Aug
Aug
ExpressVPN is undoubtedly one of the best VPN clients out there. They have versions of their VPN software for every single operating system and all of them are actual applications which help real noobies to connect to a VPN with the greatest of ease. However their Linux client is a command line tool, which is […]
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Aug
Aug
Some people may have run into this error on macOS (previously OSX) where they require the use of sha512sum or sha256sum packages which all Linux distributions have. macOS is a BSD based operating system so it should have easier ways of installing missing packages like you can do on any other Linux distribution but I […]
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Jul
Jul
Most people are really stupid when it comes to passwords. Most use stupid things like their birth-dates, ID or social security numbers, wives or children’s names or other simple things that a bit of googling about you could help someone easily guess your password. Some people, believe it or not, still use weak passwords like […]
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Apr
Apr
You would think resetting or changing your mySQL root user password would be an easy process but all the guides out there seem to really suck at explaining things properly. I had to do a reset of a mysql root password this morning on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial and had some issues getting through the process […]
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Apr
Apr
Having a server clock that is always correct is crucial for anybody running a server. An incorrect system date and time can cause untold problems and it seems a lot of people have encountered a bug with NTP in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial with the service either not starting up after a reboot or simply crashing […]