How to run CentOS 8 on Acer Aspire 6920G
by Danila Vershinin, December 2, 2019
Acer Aspire 6920G is now an ancient laptop, but I still own one so this article is quite personal 🙂 I had no use for it, so decided to give it a spin for a fresh install of CentOS 8 while my Macbook Air is undergoing repair. Let’s see what happened and how I got […]
Read More...Fix FirewallD in CentOS 7
by Danila Vershinin, November 17, 2019
Here’s how to fix the FirewallD startup problem in CentOS 7. A permanent fix, not a half solution!
Read More...CentOS/RHEL 8 as your developer machine. Utilizing 64GB of RAM for performance
by Danila Vershinin, November 9, 2019
Leveraging 64 GB of RAM on your developer CentOS/RHEL 8 machine
Read More...SwissUpLabs themes and plugins for Magento 2? Stay away
by Danila Vershinin, November 2, 2019
Slow Magento 2 website? Check if you run the Argento theme by Swissup Labs and get rid of it.
Read More...Protect your signup forms from SPAM with NGINX and CleanTalk
by Danila Vershinin, September 6, 2019
Suppose you’re running Mautic on CentOS 7 machine. You’ve created a signup form and placed it on the front page of your website. The form is very simple: an input for an email address and Subscribe button. Bots are hitting it hard. They submit email addresses to your form, your database of subscribers have lots […]
Read More...NGINX and phpMyAdmin. When you have to…
by Danila Vershinin, August 18, 2019
The phpMyAdmin is the famous web client for MySQL databases. However, being an open-source product, it is subject to security vulnerabilities. The best thing is not using it at all. All the modern MySQL GUI clients support connecting via SSH tunneling. So you don’t have to open MYSQL port for outside. Neither you expose the […]
Read More...Boeing’s messy corporate website gives you a clue about the level of IT expertise… vs Airbus?
by Danila Vershinin, July 28, 2019
It appears that the Boeng corporate website is developed and maintained by low paid engineers from India, too.
Read More...DNS caching and beyond, in CentOS/RHEL and Fedora
by Danila Vershinin, July 21, 2019
Make use of DNS caching on your CentOS/RHEL 7/8 to speed up your server even faster!
Read More...FirewallD and trusted IP addresses
by Danila Vershinin, July 10, 2019
How to whitelist IP addresses in FirewallD like a PRO
Read More...How to install Viber in CentOS/RHEL 8
by Danila Vershinin, July 5, 2019
How to install Viber in CentOS/RHEL 8
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