Beyond Privoxy
by Danila Vershinin, December 14, 2019
There is software that we all know and love, and more often than not, forget about it. Privoxy is one of them. It allows you to filter ads and is also a go-to solution for anonymous browsing when it is coupled with Tor. With the arrival of adblock plugins in Chrome, and the web increasingly […]
Read More...NGINX locations: performance impact and optimizations
by Danila Vershinin, December 12, 2019
NGINX location and rewrite directives. What are the best practices?
Read More...Configure IKEV2 (Strongswan) VPN client in CentOS/RHEL 8 (Gnome GUI)
by Danila Vershinin, December 8, 2019
How to configure a Strongswan (IKEV2) client VPN connection in CentOS/RHEL 8
Read More...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.
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