Category: Infrastructure
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Real-world data usage with 4G router
I have now been running my new mobile router for a week and I can see my real-world data usage. I was quite careful and I set my phone and PC to treat the router’s connection as a “metered network” and when I did a 3 hour video conference I turned the video off and…
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How to get home broadband in 12 hours using Amazon and a mobile router
I have got my home broadband from PlusNet for over 20 years who have given me excellent service over that time. The original connection was over the BT copper line to the house (5MB max) and in recent years this was upgraded to Fibre to the Cabinet (~60MB). In the last couple of years Virgin…
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Backing up your broadband connection with mobile
If you work from home in the UK then you probably have a broadband connection that is carried over a plain-old-telephone wire from the cabinet in the road to your house. You can buy your broadband service from many different providers but it will still be delivered by that fragile copper wire which is owned…
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When to use Docker containerisation
Most of my posts recently have been about crypto as I try to build up my SEO for my crypto directory. To redress this balance here is a very interesting link about how and why you might use Docker containerisation. https://www.linode.com/docs/applications/containers/when-and-why-to-use-docker/
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The web at 30
Here is great video from CERN reminding us that they created the web 30 years ago. The narrator closes with “we cannot now imagine or remember a world without the web”. I am afraid I do…
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How to recover space from system on Windows Home Server
Follow the process recommended by Nem1234 in this thread and reproduced below and then run checkdisk on the C: You will have to reboot and it will take many hours to complete __ How to find the space….. 🙂 My piece of the pie chart showing SYSTEM space used ( seen on the WHS ‘Server…
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Installing Newrelic server monitoring
In a previous post I explained how to install Newrelic server application monitoring for WordPress. I now realise that this is probably putting the cart before the horse in that one should install Newrelic Server monitoring first. This is very easy. The instructions are here and at the bottom of the page it gives advice on…
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Installing Newrelic application monitoring on Bitnami Servers
W3 Total Cache recommends Newrelic for WordPress application monitoring. Newrelic provides detailed server and application monitoring. The PHP agent tracks which pages take a long time to render and which queries take a long time to run. Install Newrelic I installed the Newrelic agent and daemon using apt get as instructed on their website. (Bitnami…
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Managing MySQL on Bitnami AWS servers
There are two clients that can be used to manage the MySQL server on Bitnami AWS servers. phpMyAdmin This is a php application web application that has been pre-installed by Bitnami MySQL Workbench. A rich client that runs on your desktop and connects over a socket The approach is both cases is similar you need…
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How to install a SSL certificate on a Bitnami WordPress server
In a previous post I described how to enforce SSL in this post I show how to replace the self-signed certificate with one from a Certificate Authority such as StartSLL. The standard configuration of Bitnami servers is that the Apache configuration is overwritten by an application configuration. The Bitnami server is provided with a self-signed…
Dr James Bayley 