How to Add Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to WordPress in About 2 Minutes
The world is a dangerous place. Take some of the edge off by enabling Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on your WordPress sites in about 60 seconds.
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How Do You Self-Host From Home When Your ISP Gives You a Dynamic IP?
If you have a service running at home, you need to be able to update a DNS record every time your ISP changes your IP. How? We'll look at two ways, including a very simple one-liner you can drop in cron.
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Apple Defeated: The Unbelievably Hard Journey to Totally Silence an iMessages Group Chat - It Can Be Done, But It's Ugly
I have a group chat I really can't drop out of for family political reasons, but I'd like to have it silenced. Completely silenced. Is there a way to do this in iOS? No. In MacOS? Only will extreme determination...
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The Vexing Wordpress "Missed Schedule" Issue - How to Fix It, Permanently
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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Let's Give the Newly-Released FreeDOS 1.4 a Spin on macOS With qemu
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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Hey raindog308, That TK5 Article Didn't Work on Debian! (Here's the Fix)
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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Is Your Soul as Dark as a Christmas Stocking's Coal? Make Your Online World Match
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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How to Migrate a Linux Server Using Rsync: Linux VPS or Linux Dedicated Server, Migrate Easily
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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7 Steps To Save Your WHMCS Users' Personal Info From the Dark Web
WHMCS is your crown jewels, and it's catastrophic if it's ever hacked. How can you keep yourself safe?
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What is "aria-label"? And why you need to use it.
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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One of the Most Useful Sites in the World is Also One of the Simplest: neverssl.com
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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BEFORE YOU SHIP: How to Prepare Your Server for Colocation - A Community Checklist
Thinking of colocating a server? Awesome. Here's some quick tips to make sure your experience is a happy one.
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NSD Tutorial Updated for 2024: Now With Zone Transfers!
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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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 7: Round-Robin DNS, Let’s Encrypt, & Conclusion
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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Setup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 6: MariaDB Multi-Master
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 MoreSetup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 5: Wordpress Install
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 five, we're using the Gluster install we did in the previous part to setup Wordpress.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 4: Gluster
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 four, we're installing GlusterFS and getting it working on all three nodes.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 3: Ansible
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 three, we'll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 2: Ordering the VPSes
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 two, we'll step through provisioning these VMs at Hetzner.
Read MoreSetup a Highly Available Wordpress Site From Scratch, 2024 Edition! Part 1: Introduction, Considerations, and Architecture
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 one, we're covering some background, design considerations, and architecture.
Read MorePikaPods: Spin Up Tons of Apps for Cheap on This Awesome Service! Let's Do a Deep Dive
One 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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Grasping This One Crucial Concept Made Developing Web Apps So Much Easier!
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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Check Your Vultr Bandwidth Before This Happens! We Make It Easy
Understanding how bandwidth on Vultr is complicated. Let's go over how it works, and then how to avoid overages.
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Irritation Removed: You Do Everything As Root And Hate Manually Removing Sudo From Copy-Paste Commands
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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NOW() vs. SYSDATE() in MySQL/MariaDB: What's the Difference? Watch Out for This Gotcha!
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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ACTION REQUIRED: Prepare Your DMARC Policy for Gmail & Yahoo 2024 Requirements!
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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Raspberry Pi Photo Frame: The Major Slideshow Options + Thermal Monitoring Script
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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How to Turn Off the HDMI Monitor on Your Raspberry Pi 5. It's Not As Easy as You Might Think
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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