I recently moved a domain to Cloudflare and to my delight I found that Cloudflare’s edge servers provide SSL, which automatically upgrades your http:// connection to https:// free of charge. Brilliant, I thought! Except it broke my website.
Read on to find out why, and how to fix it!
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I wanted to transfer a UK (.co.uk) domain away from Squarespace and decided that Cloudflare would be a good domain registrar to use. Along the way I encountered a few bumps in the road, and a few gotchas, but eventually I got there.
Read on to find out how to avoid my mistakes!
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I started migrating all of my domains away from Squarespace this week. And as I started to write a blog post about why I chose Cloudflare it occurred to me that I was going on a tangent about how much I disliked Squarespace. So here’s a post about that instead!
Read on to find out why!
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One morning I switched my work laptop on, running Ubuntu 14.04, and found that I had completely lost all network connectivity. No ethernet LAN nor Wi-Fi connection, and no Gnome network manager icon. It turned out to be one of those peculiar things that seem to “just happen” from time-to-time in the Linux world.
Read on to find out how I fixed it.
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Over the years I’ve used many different hosting solutions. From shared hosting, a dedicated server, to several VPSes. These all came with a graphical control panel, most often Plesk, from which the server could be administered. The downside was the cost of the licence. So a little while ago I took the plunge and purchased a standard cloud-based VPS from Fasthosts with no control panel, taking on the job of system administrator for the first time.
Read on to learn how it’s fairly straightforward to set up a general-purpose Ubuntu 14.04 server, administering it over SSH.
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If, like me, you own or manage a Facebook page, you may be used to switching identity to your page and then browsing Facebook like normal as your page, liking other pages, sharing posts etc… I’m not an avid Facebook user so I only noticed recently that I was no longer able to browse as any of my pages, like I had been always been doing until now.
At first I thought it might be a problem due to a browser plugin; Facebook just wasn’t working like it always had done. Well after some searching I found the answer and it was a lot simpler than I expected. Read on for the details!
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I recently needed to search and replace some text in a large number of PHP scripts. Back in my Windows days I had a lightweight freeware programme that was perfect for the job. But what to do on Linux? The answer was to combine grep and sed. But don’t forget to watch out for Git!
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It’s arguably a good idea to move your SSH listener off port 22. This is a quick and easy way to reduce hacking attempts and one of the first things you can do to further secure your server.
Use come command-line fu to analyse your website log in real-time and find out which IP addresses are making the most requests.
Node.js is an increasingly-popular JavaScript runtime that can be used to build server-side applications. Installing Node on Ububtu 14.04 via APT isn’t quite as straightforward as it could be, as the version in the default repositories is 0.10.25, dating back to early 2014.
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