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Extending XFS root partition on KVM VPS on Centos

Posted on November 4, 2021

Practical steps for resizing root partition for KVM VPS. Our host runs Centos 8, but VPS itself has Centos 7 (with cPanel, but that does […]

Linux, Security

Install VMWare tools on Centos 7 / 8 and AlmaLinux

Posted on September 23, 2021

VMWare tools are distributed through repositories. Install them with yum install open-vm-tools Remember to start and enable it, so it starts automatically after reboot. systemctl […]

Linux

Find and delete files with specific content

Posted on May 3, 2021

Sometimes you get bad files uploaded to your website. Files might be the same or might just contain a specific line of code and you […]

Linux, Security

Migrating from Centos to Debian

Posted on March 3, 2021

Little introduction Frustrated as most of you, who has been with CentOS for many years, I have decided to head to Debian. This page will […]

apache, Linux, MySQL, Security

Fix SSL certificate validation with ProxyPass

Posted on February 10, 2021

If you proxyPass your whole account and still want/need to have URL validation for your free SSL certificate (AutoSSL / Let’s Encrypt / cPanel / […]

apache, Linux

Compile PHP7.4 on Centos6

Posted on February 9, 2021

There are reasons, when you need to compile PHP yourself. I would personally always prefer that way, as it lets you have more control and […]

Linux, PHP

Fix: Exim mail bounce back – retry time not reached

Posted on November 15, 2019

Sometimes, usually when you have been affected by spammer attack and your exim queue was full of the bad emails, you might have troubles sending […]

Security

Redirect visitors to new domain, unless logged in. WordPress.

Posted on November 1, 2019

So – here is a very interesting piece of code, that I wanted to share. One customer came to me with a problem – company […]

PHP, Wordpress

Benchmark your WordPress host

Posted on October 11, 2019

This is awesome, guys – simple plugin to stress test your hosting and compare with other hosts. This plugin will run some tests on your […]

Wordpress

Telling browser to cache JS/CSS and images

Posted on November 20, 2018

Most modern browsers should cache static content, like images, CSS and JS to make page load faster. But if you feel like being polite administrator […]

apache, Linux