Jul
04
We have secured a 25% off coupon code for HostGator, readers of this blog and Digitalquill customers can get this 25% discount by using the code ‘Digitalquill’ at the checkout. Although this can not be used for domain names it can be used for all other HostGator services, including WordPress hosting, Web and email hosting …
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 …
Jan
14
Firstly you should log in as root, and run `date`. This will show you the current time, date and timezone and then backup your current timezone setting mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime-old Create a symbolic link the timezone you want from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime. For example: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
Jan
02
If you have been trying to get to this blog over the last week or so you will have found that it has been down, along with all my other sites. This was due to a hardware failure on my web server, which coming as it did over the Christmas period has been somewhat frustrating. …
