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Moving on from moltin
Thoughts on my new quest for a new personal and professional challenge.
Blast from the Past
Whilst giving this site a general tidy up recently, I found a couple of old articles published on the Journal.
Forcing Backup in WHM
WHM changed the way it handles backups in 11.38.
Mitigating NTP attacks against ESXi 4.1
The `monlist` command against NTP servers is being used to launch DDOS attacks.
NGINX Routing based on IP
Sometimes you want to connect to a different set of upstream nodes from an NGINX load balancer.
Heartbleed
If you use the internet, it's probably a good idea to reset your passwords. Don't say you haven't been warned.
Casting fields in MongoDB Docs
So you have your document schema sorted but your application is throwing in mixed types on an indexed field. Not the end of the world, but your indexes are performing sub optimally.
NGINX with Upload Progress
Using NGINX as a load balancer can be great. Monitoring upload progress to feed back to your user doesn't come out the box.
vSphere / ESXi Usernames
When adding users to ESXi 4.1 you can sometimes get the error "User name or password has an invalid format".
Sharing Profiles via Dropbox
Great for sharing files. Great for sharing bash profiles. Great for sharing SSH keys. Great for the NSA.
Server Density API Class in PHP
You love to write tools for your systems, your external is Server Density and you write in PHP. Oh Hai.
Hard reboot of Server
You never want to do it, you should never need to, but sweet mary when you have to, beware of hangs.
Regex Search in value
Use MongoDB to find a regex term inside field values.
Killing Linux programmes by name
You're forking about with PHP - way to go! Then it spawns itself because of a bad dev script and you need to kill it in a jiffy.
Verifying SSL on custom ports
Your shiny new SSL needs to operate on specific ports. How do you check you've installed correctly?
Mongo PHP Extension in MAMP
Some things really shouldn't need notes. Adding the PHP MongoDB extension on MAMP does.
The Riot Effect
The recent riots across the UK propped up news websites with many tuning in online. No one wants to know about the Arts?
Removing arRsync Files
You like to backup. It make syou feel warm inside when your head hits the pillow. Until you find crap littered in your dirs.