by Cristian Balan | Oct 20, 2022 | Bookmarks
Pi-hole®Network-wide Ad Blocking. You can run Pi-hole in a container, or deploy it directly to a supported operating system via our automated installer. SyncthingSyncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more...
by Cristian Balan | Dec 4, 2021 | Azure, Monitoring
I found myself in the position of having to get Azure Monitor alerts notifications into Microsoft Teams. So I thought it would be as easy as creating an Incoming Webhook in Teams and adding its URL to an Azure Action Group, right? Wrong! After trying that in vain,...
by Cristian Balan | Oct 26, 2021 | Hosting, How-to, Mail
WildDuck is a simple mail server solution and is often accompanied by the WildDuck Webmail service. While you can create email addresses with any domain via both the WildDuck’s API and the Webmail GUI, when it comes to aliases and the ease of use of the user...
by Cristian Balan | Apr 29, 2021 | Magento
A brief write-up by Absolute Commerce on building and deploying Magento with a pipeline: https://absolutecommerce.co.uk/blog/magento-2-pipeline-deploy-zero-downtime Had this opened in my many tabs so thought will better save it this way for future reference. We might...
by Cristian Balan | Apr 18, 2021 | Linux, Networking
I was using NextDNS when I decided to get an Unifi Dream Machine (UDM) and switch to the built-in content filtering. However, I wasn’t particularly impressed with its beta feature and after using it for a few months I decided to turn back to NextDNS. Thankfully...
by Cristian Balan | Jan 3, 2021 | Linux, Nextcloud, OwnCloud
Install and Configure PHP 8.0 As of this writing, the Raspbian 10 repository allows installing PHP 7.3. We want 8.0 instead so let’s add the source to Ondřej Surý’s PHP packages: sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg...
by Cristian Balan | Dec 13, 2020 | Linux, Magento, Monitoring
I’ve used Papertrail before its acquisition from SolarWinds and was impressed by its simple interface and the logs scrapping capabilities. At the time, I have set Papertrail to monitor a few auth logs and trigger Slack notifications whenever SSH access occurred...
by Cristian Balan | Oct 30, 2020 | How-to
# One liner wget –recursive –page-requisites –adjust-extension –span-hosts –convert-links –restrict-file-names=windows –domains yoursite.com –no-parent yoursite.com # Explained wget \ –recursive \ # Download the...
by Cristian Balan | Jun 11, 2020 | Linux
I needed to move the home directory into an attached block storage on an Ubuntu server and found this simple and clear Tecmint article: How to Move Home Directory to New Partition or Disk in Linux In particular, other than the obvious fstab, the bits I was looking for...
by Cristian Balan | May 30, 2020 | Bookmarks, Linux, WordPress
This step-by-step guide contains everything you need to know about setting up a Ubuntu 20.04 server to run WordPress at lightning speed. Continue reading at https://spinupwp.com/install-wordpress-ubuntu
