If you host your website on a Linux server, and have SSH access to your website then you can create an automated embedded twitch video iframe that shows your twitch channel, or who you’re hosting. This is a simple way to support people on twitch. Plus if your website gets more views than your twitch […]
I am hosting OpenVPN services now at https://vpn.disc4life.com which redirects to my new server at https://vpnshroud.com. You are welcome to setup an account and use the services for free at the moment. This is utilizing the OpenVPN server provided by https://openvpn.net/ . Here is a video showing you how to connect to the service. I […]
If you’re having slow website or server performance it may be due to a directory having too many files. Here is a youtube video showing this in action. https://youtu.be/OZXok1Nb7Yc I created a test directory with 1.5 million files, and getting the directory listing takes over 5 minutes. This means anytime you interact with the directory […]
If you have a failed disk on your Hardware Raid using Adaptec raid controller on your Linux server you can use these commands to get the RAID info so you can replace the correct disk. Here is a video showing this post in action. https://youtu.be/w6Qu4CUo7gI First check which RAID card you have lspci | grep […]
Are you having issues with your wordpress site loading a white page, and nothing else. Then I would recommend checking the debug.log file to see what is occurring as it could be a simple php error. Here is a video demonstrating this process. https://youtu.be/8OF-U2QIEhM First open your wp-config.php file with a text editor, and add […]
If your virtual instance is not booting due to a broken grub2 configuration you can fix it by connecting through your parent server with the sysrescuecd on the virtual instance. Here is a video showing this in action. https://youtu.be/9TOGb6cEhcY This is what grub2 rescue screen looks like. If this is what you’re seeing then […]
Do you have a copy of your MySQL directory but are unable to take a .sql dump of a specific database in order to restore it? You can start a secondary temporary mysql instance from this data in order to take a .sql dump of that database. First you would create a directory to move […]
Servers will run out of space, whether it be due to inode usage or actual disk space due to file sizes. Inodes are the amount of files that your disk can handle, while the disk space is how much actual space the disk capacity can contain. Here are two different find commands to help investigate […]
If you are getting a 500 error on your website then checking your IP address in the Apache error log is the usual method of figuring out what is wrong. On a Cpanel / WHM server running Apache with Red Hat 7 the error log is located at /etc/apache2/logs/error_log . Using the linux string matching […]
If you have forgot the wordpress login URL because you renamed it using a plugin, such as rename-wp-login, then you can resolve the issue by changing the login URL back to default for the time being. First you will need to SSH into your server, and then move the plugin directory with the _ character […]