My servers have been using free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates for some time now, but I was really excited to hear about support for wildcard SSL certificates in 2018. Wildcards…
September 17, 2018
I wanted to guarantee that requests coming from one of my servers going to a domain they host are routed to localhost. The solution I arrived at was to generate a list of domains…
March 20, 2016
I am using MariaDB - the open source version of MySQL - and wanted an easy way to backup my databases on a regular schedule without having to do anything when I created or…
March 18, 2016
I have an IPSec Tunnel built from one of my servers to an integration partner which is used to secure our web service calls. It uses a IPSec, OpenSwan, and Pluto to maintain a…
November 16, 2015
What is WP-Cron? WP-Cron is the way that WordPress executes scheduled jobs that are added via wp_schedule_event() or one of its associated functions. First it's a bit of a hack…
May 14, 2014
The default settings for Munin will result in RRD files containing 5 minute intervals of data, or 300 seconds as it is stored internally. It is possible to change this interval…
April 15, 2014
Useful if you run scheduled tasks in production and want to leverage cron, via Orchestrate.io. The Gist shell script for cron_helper.sh is below. #!/bin/bash usage() { cat << EOF…
April 12, 2014