As you would be aware I use WordPress regularly (this site is also wordpress) and being a web dev I tend to place html code in pages regularly, recently I’ve become more and more anoyed with the WordPress auto code cleanup function. After some Google Searching I found this little Gem “Smacking WordPress Editor, or [...]
Browsing Posts published in August, 2010
Gzip will compress the content on the server delivering a much smaller file size to the browser where it is uncompressed and served as per normal, this reduces bandwidth and in most cases drastically reduces the viewing time of your websites.
I was recently connected to the console of a Linux VM on an ESXi server using vSphere and whenever I would type it would repeat each character a random number of times, needless to say this got quiet anoying. So I did some Googleing! As we all do, and I found this article which was [...]
From time to time it is necessary to update the hosts file on a machine, and MAC’s are no different! given they are based on unix most bits and pieces are in their usual places but “hidden” from the usual users. With good cause! If your reading this your obviously not a normal user… So [...]
So you have, for whatever reason, a requirement to send all mail from CPanel server x addressed to *@domain.com via a specific smtp server. I recently ran into this issue and found a relatively simple fix. Unlike Microsoft Exchange and its easy UI where you can create a send connector with a bunch of prerequisites, [...]
Learn how to enable ssh access to your ESXi VMware hosts
What I tend to do is restrict ssh to protocol 2 to start with, then change the listening port for ssh and lastly utilize CPanel’s built in hosts access control to restrict what sources are able to access ssh.
From time to time my configuration of CPanel Hosting servers requires the ability to allow a Windows (or other) style DNS server to retrieve hosted dns zones from the hosting server. As default AXFR is blocked with Bind/NSD on a CPanel box, and with good cause! My configuration in an environment where Windows DNS servers [...]
OK, so if you’re like me your a bit of an all rounder, you will almost certainly come up against a MAC in your travels! While I used to cringe when I got the “ohh while you are here, the designers MAC has been playing up” line, now I am joyed by this as it [...]
