Occasionally, Wordpress will miss a scheduled post, sending it to oblivion. This problem is well known in the WP community, but the causes are still somewhat mysterious. In this tutorial, we dive into possible underlying reasons why it may occur, and more importantly, how to fix it once and for all.
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FreeDOS 1.4 is out. Let's take a look at at installing it. We'll use qemu on macOS so we have 1980s computing inside a 21st century machine.
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A few days ago I posted about the release of TK5, which is the "turnkey" mainframe operating system you can run at home on your Linux or other system. However, I learned that the "turnkey" OS isn't as "turnkey" as people like. Specifically, it doesn't work on Debian 12. Here's the fix!
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Should you use dark mode on your browser? Perhaps. About 20 years ago, I read something (probably in an airplane magazine) about dark screens being better for your eyes. The theory was that using dark mode, you are pumping less light into your eyes which...I guess...is supposed to be better for them? Today I actually decided to Google this, and here's what I found.
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Do you need to move from one provider or one server to another? It's straightforward but there's a lot of loose ends and details. RackNerd has a tutorial to walk you through all the details.
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WHMCS is your crown jewels, and it's catastrophic if it's ever hacked. How can you keep yourself safe?
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Something we recently added on LowEndBox as part of our web 2.0 SEO improvement project (and accessibility enhancements) is the addition of the aria-label attribute in hypertext links. So, what is WAI-ARIA, also known as ARIA-LABEL?
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Have you ever had connecting to a public wifi? It might be because they've got old software that wants you to go to an http connection so they can intercept it. We have a solution.
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Thinking of colocating a server? Awesome. Here's some quick tips to make sure your experience is a happy one.
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I'm updating our guide to running an NSD authoritative DNS server to do proper zone transfers, like I showed you in the YouTube video tutorial. We go from scratch to having 2 redundant DNS servers in this howto.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. We're at the final part and now we're going to wrap up with round-robin DNS, Let's Encrypt, and a test of the HA setup.
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Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part six, we're setting up MariaDB multi-master replication using Galera.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part three, we'll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part two, we'll step through provisioning these VMs at Hetzner.
Read MoreThree years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available Wordpress site from scratch. Now we're going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part one, we're covering some background, design considerations, and architecture.
Read MoreOne of my favorite services is PikaPods, which allows you to effortlessly spin up nearly 80 apps (and growing) including development, database, monitoring, collaboration, note-taking, and more. Let's dive in!
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Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a very popular pattern for web application development. It's used by a who's-who of application frameworks, including Laravel, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Lami...
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Understanding how bandwidth on Vultr is complicated. Let's go over how it works, and then how to avoid overages.
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You don't use sudo, but you're constantly coming across commands that are prefixed with sudo. Tired of having to first edit them to remove the sudo? We have a one-time solution for you.
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Recently I read a long article about the difference between SYSDATE() and CURRENT_DATE() in Oracle databases. It reminded me that I once researched the difference between NOW() and SYSDATE() in MySQL. These functions seem very similar, and for many (most?) uses, you'd be hard-pressed to observe a difference. But they're not exactly the same. Here's a quick guide on which to use when.
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Did you know that Gmail and Yahoo are enforcing new sending rules effective February 2024? It’s important for you to adapt and review quickly, to ensure your emails will be able to continue to reach your customers, considering that these email services are commonly used email services by customers to this day.
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I've been hacking on my Raspberry Pi this week, and today I'd like to share my experiences with a variety of Linux slideshow programs. We'll also take a look at monitoring the Pi's temperature.
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The answer is not tvservice, cec-client, or vcgencmd. Let's explore the fast-changing world of Raspberry Pi display commands.
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If you've been following my journey with Directadmin, I signed up for a DirectAdmin reseller account with Silicom Network. They perform backups, but I'd like my own backups. How can I automate them, including MySQL, when I don't have a shell account?
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Last time we got signed up with a Silicom Network reseller account. Now let's get SSL configured and setup Wordpress.
Read MoreI signed up for one of Silicom Network's lifetime reseller accounts. Let's go through setup and start getting familiar with DirectAdmin.
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