Infrastructure as code is managing and provisioning of infrastructure using code (basically property files and configuration files that define your setup and configuration files for the software you plan to use on it) instead of manually doing it. Using an automated method to handle your infrastructure saves a lot of time that lets you do… Read More »Chef vs Ansible vs Puppet vs Terraform vs Saltstack
The hosting market today is a very competitive place, providing various services including support and services that manage your service. Whether you are just hosting a website on a shared host, VMs, containers or even dedicated rentals, due to competitive pricing, everyone overprovisions except if mentioned which are typically more expensive. A dedicated VM service… Read More »Overprovisioning and Overusing compute resources
When dealing with VMs, if you didnt plan your filing and partitions well and went ahead with root, you may one day be extending this. For instance you may only provision 10GB of EBS on EC2 on amazon at first, then as your files grow such as logs and say content for your website you… Read More »Extending the root LVM on linux live
As i managed to get a better job leaving my minimum wage programming job things will eventually look up as i spent more than a year on minimum wage. When i first came in before covid-19, the salary was low but not minimum and i got bad comments instead so never considered increasing my salary… Read More »Never work for minimum wage in IT
After watching reviews of the new apple macbook containing the M1 chip, it seems to wipe the floor on x86 however its not a straight story as the reviewers claim and they get basic CPU and SoC architecture information entirely wrong. SoCs are very interesting because long before apply managed to get good performance with… Read More »How the new Apple M1 Chip actually compares to x86
AJAX, asynchronous javascript requests and RESTful APIs together can create an interactive web experience in a manner that reduces resource usage in both CPU and network without having to reload the whole page, but despite the colourful sounding technology, is this better than the plain old method? In this article i’ll be discussing the usage… Read More »Chaining AJAX+REST /w wordpress vs refreshing
Do you long for mesh wifi or already have them? Well look further as most mesh wifi products out there are rebadged wifi extenders. Recently where I work upgraded their ISP and got 2 different types of mesh WiFi APs in pairs. The problem of mesh WiFi has been something I mentioned long ago on… Read More »When your mesh WiFi isn’t mesh
Whenever you want to buy a powerbank for your phone, or battery, how do you know the capacity is falsified? After all dealing with fake products and returns can be a pain and at times costly as marketplaces only follow laws if exist. For example in eBay UK, I had to pay to return a… Read More »How to verify manufacturer battery capacity claims
So you want to host or offer hosting focused around WordPress based websites? Although WordPress is a php based cms that uses SQL and generates frontend code, WordPress by itself is superfast, lightweight and secure. However most WordPress websites use custom themes and plugins which themselves add their own features with some popular plugins containing… Read More »Creating the fastest hosting service for wordpress
Tar, zip, gunzip and 7zip are compression and packing techniques have long been available for many many years across different platforms with some shipping by default in some OSes while others may be included in some OSes only. Linux tends to ship with tar, gzip and zip while windows now ships with zip only. These… Read More »When to use tar+gz , zip or 7z