iptables is a command-line firewall utility that uses policy chains to allow or block traffic. When a connection tries to establish itself on your system, iptables looks for a rule in its list to match it to. If it doesn’t find one, it resorts to the default action. Oct 2021
One unusual causing factor that is rarely considered or even caught, are the inefficient/unnecessary API calls from within the installed and active plugins. Sep 2020
This tutorial will teach you how to setup WordPress on your Ubuntu 18.04 server with a LEMP stack. Aug 2019
Chef is a vital part of the infrastructure for many enterprises, as a configuration management tool to automate the provisioning of their IT infrastructure, with additional compliance capabilities. But in can get tricky when things stop working and not much specialised information is available. May 2018
Configuring UTF8 character-set/collation for your MySQL or MariaDB service on a Docker container can be achieved by passing the following parameters in the command section May 2018
Starting with ubuntu 15.04, Upstart has been replaced with systemd, and whilst installing MongoDB was no issue, there was no way of having it running as a service by default. Jan 2016
There’s a bug which causes some accented characters to become corrupt before / during / after import or just document edit, when you use Microsoft Excel – this is a known Microsoft bug which has never been fixed. This frustrating csv UTF-8 encoding issue, occurs only with Microsoft Excel. Oct 2015
Vanity URLs are simple but incredibly efficient redirects to help track marketing campaigns via Google Analytics, in this case, and help build reports or track their effectiveness. Jun 2015
Having a DNS entry on Cloudflare, for example: direct.domain.com, which has the purpose to serve a live and non-cached version of the site, can create some duplicate content issues with Google, which is never good for SEO. Oct 2014
Some git tips and tricks that I compiled over time. Do you have any to share? Feb 2014
Lazy loading images upon DOM ready with the help of jQuery: Nov 2013