RackSpace Cloud API - getting the token and the endpoint
RackSpace is an American hosting provider with several data centers, offering a big number of hosting solutions. One of the products is cloud hosting with it...
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Disk space issue in Linux
Sometimes there’s plenty of free space on disk, but files stubbornly refuse to get created. In some cases you get an error saying the disk ran out of free sp...
The max_allowed_packet error when restoring a MySQL database
If you’re reading this note, you’ve run into the following error while restoring a MySQL database:
Netstat not found on Fedora
Today, while doing initial setup on a Fedora 20 server, I got this error:
Useful notes about Yum
A cheat sheet for working with the Yum (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) package manager which is used in popular Linux distributions: RedHat, CentOS, Scientific...
Migrating a Site Away from GoogleSites
Today habrahabr user ‘lord Brabazon Vere-de-Vere’ shared his method for migrating a site off GoogleSites onto separate hosting.
Parsing web Pages with php
For this not-so-easy job we’ll use PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.
Configure suexec for Apache2 on Ubuntu 14.04
The suexec mechanism allows you to execute CGI scripts on behalf of different system users. In this article, I’ll walk through an example of setting up suexe...
Configure SFTP Chroot at Ubuntu 14.04
This article covers setting up an sftp server and isolating users in their home directories (chroot) based on Linux Ubuntu 14.04.
Installing monit on Debian/Ubuntu
Monit — a program for checking the state of services and keeping them running, which can send notifications when something goes wrong. It runs on linux, bsd ...
Checking internet connection speed from the Linux console
The speedtest.net site is well known. It helps a lot to check your internet speed, but what about linux servers that don’t have a GUI, only a bash console.
Sorting processes by memory usage in Linux
The following command returns the list of processes using the most memory, in megabytes:
Tunning fail2ban in Plesk
Plesk allows to tune configuration of almost everything. fail2ban configuration is locates on the page Tools & Settings. Locate the section of IP Address...
How to find the script that is spamming via postfix
If you find that your postfix server keeps sending and you understand that you have been scammed. Pretty disgusting state of affairs.
Server Not Showing Up in NewRelic
This isn’t an article, just a note for the blog of an ordinary tech guy.