Tag: Infrastructure

  • Touring Fasthosts’ new Worcester data centre

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Wednesday, 13th March, 2024

    If I had a bucket list, this would be on it.

    Last week I had the privilege of being invited to tour the new Fasthosts / IONOS data centre here in the Midlands (Worcester) and I jumped at the chance.

    I got to see “back stage” of the purpose-built facility where Fasthosts build and host the 10,000+ servers that power the company’s web and email hosting, CloudNX and virtual server platforms, and dedicated/bare metal servers.

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  • Upgrading to Fedora Linux 39

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Friday, 10th November, 2023

    The Fedora Linux project this week released their latest incarnation: Fedora Linux 39.

    It is available for download now in the core Workstation, Server, Cloud and IoT flavours.

    This article explains how to upgrade a previous version, such as Fedora 38, to the latest release.

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  • Fasthosts VPS: an honest Review

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Wednesday, 14th September, 2022

    I have hosted my website and applications on a Fasthosts VPS since September 2019. Each year, I have upgraded my VPS to a current model.

    What has kept me hosting with Fasthosts for nearly 3 years, and confident in their services that I can recommend them to others?

    This article answers those questions and dives into the Fasthosts VPS product to create an honest review from a real, current customer.

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  • Apple release macOS Big Sur… but can you get it?

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Thursday, 12th November, 2020

    Apple today released the biggest update to macOS in recent years.

    It’s so big in fact, it no longer carries the OS X (version 10) moniker it has carried since the early 2000s. No sur; Big Sur carries an all-new version 11.

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  • Developers – score yourself a .dev domain today

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Sunday, 24th February, 2019

    Google is the registry behind the new .dev TLD – the ultimate vanity domain for developers.

    The .dev extension has historically been used by developers fudging their host files to create realistic-looking development environments. Now, .dev is open in Early Access Preview to allow the world to register their .dev domains.

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  • Deploying PHP applications with RunCloud on UpCloud

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Sunday, 27th January, 2019

    My first post of 2019 is a tutorial that’s all about the cloud.

    I’m going to show you how to deploy a PHP application with a MySQL database on a cloud server from UpCloud. I’ll be using the brilliant RunCloud control panel to deploy my PHP photo gallery – Blue Twilight – to an UpCloud server.

    My friends over at UpCloud have provided an awesome promo-code for free credit to try out their service. Details at the end of the article.

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  • Website maintenance: 16/17th October

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Friday, 12th October, 2018

    My new hosting provider (blog post on that coming soon!) has notified me of 2 maintenance windows next week:

    • 16th October, 22:00 – 02:00
    • 17th October, 00:00 – 00:30

    The first window specifically targets the VPS platform, and will see my server powered down and migrated to new infrastructure.

    The second window will see an upgrade to the core network adding additional capacity and DDOS protection.

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  • Upgrade Ubuntu Server 16.04 to 18.04

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Thursday, 26th July, 2018

    The Ubuntu team will this week release Ubuntu Server 18.04.1, the first minor revision to 18.04 since its release on April 26th.

    Following the release on July 26th*, Ubuntu 16.04 machines everywhere will soon start to get notifications that a new release is available to upgrade to.

    In this article, I’ll show you how to upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 using the command-line. This can be used on all Ubuntu derivatives, but is mostly aimed at Server installs that do not have a graphical interface.

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  • Install a LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP) on Ubuntu Server

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Wednesday, 11th April, 2018

    Ubuntu Server is a Linux distribution that is ideally suited to server workloads. For example: hosting websites and web applications.

    In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install a LAMP stack – that’s Apache, MariaDB (in place of MySQL) and PHP – on Ubuntu Server using the latest available releases, and how to keep it up-to-date.

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  • Redirect all visitors to a primary domain in Apache

    Picture for Andy Heathershaw Sunday, 1st April, 2018

    There are several scenarios in which you may want to redirect all your website visitors to a single, primary domain in Apache:

    • Redirect the www and non-www (root domain) hostnames of your domain to avoid duplicate content and improve SEO
    • Redirect an old domain to a new domain, maintaining links and search engine reputation
    • Redirect secondary domains (e.g. “spelling mistake” domains, or alternative-spelling domains) to your primary domain

    I have recently implemented the following on my own website, and I would like to share this Apache trick.

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