Jun
26
If you have ready my previous post about a first view of WordPress 3.2, you will have noted that there are some significant requirements changes what is needed to run WordPress 3.2 on your web server. WordPress 3.2 now requires: PHP 5.2.2 or above MySql 5.0 or above The problem with this is how does one …
Jun
02
Recently I have posted about my tribulations with setting up my perfect network at home. A quick re-cap is that we have two Windows Media Centre PCs connected to TVs. a laptop each and my main PC. The main problem we have been facing is one of storage. Until recently we have just had some …
May
09
Having setup the media storage and samba shares on the network at home, I do loose some control via windows of monitoring the space left on each of the disks. Each disk has several Samba shares running on it s I now have 10+ network drives on each computer on the network. I can of …
May
07
I have spent the past week moving 100′s of terabytes of data from disk to disk, trying to find the best solution for the central storage of my media. Let me back track a little and give some background, at home we run a Windows 7 Media Centre, my main desktop and two laptops also …
Jan
19
Something I am always forgetting how to do and have to Google for each time is how to find your Ubuntu version. Open an ssh terminal and type: cat /etc/lsb-release this will then show: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS”
Nov
05
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently moved all my web hosting to a new provider following a devastating hack of one of my dedicated servers which was hosted with Ultrahosting. I had a bad experience with Ultrahosting support and will not be using them again in the future. I have …
Oct
01
If you are using WordPress and when you upload an image it only offers you the original size image to insert into your post you need to install the GD library for PHP. On Ubuntu this is very simple just run the command: sudo apt-get install php5-gd and then restart apache sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart then …
Sep
22
In another post following on from the recent server hacks that I have suffered. I have been researching server security. SSH security is something that I have always been fairly strong on, but I wanted to check I was doing everything possible. Here is a list of things that you should do to improve the …
Sep
20
I have recently been blogging about how my web servers have been compromised. I am fairly sure that the attackers gained access to the server via WordPress. I use WordPress as the backbone to 90% of my sites, this being so it is critically important that it is secure. I have therefore been researching methods …
Sep
19
The last two months have been a real problem for my web hosting. I have blogged here before about how I have been hacked. This last week the server has hacked again and phishing software installed. I was in the process of setting up a new server anyway but this has put the pressure on …
