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Solid Tools for Developers gets a refresh
It’s been over a year since the last update to Solid Tools for Developers – my suite of online tools for developers, system admins and network managers.
Yesterday I published my latest release which gives the suite a fresh makeover and a few improvements to the tools.
Website maintenance: 16/17th October
My new hosting provider has notified me of 2 maintenance windows next week, 16th and 17th October.
Install a LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP) on Ubuntu Server
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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Brexit forced me to change my identity
A few days ago I sat in an airport lounge in Gatwick, waiting for our flight to Florida. I had finished a diet Coke
and was chewing on a piece of yoghurt-covered honeycomb (which was delicious, FYI) when I read a news article about Brexit that stunned me.
Redirect all visitors to a primary domain in Apache
There are several scenarios in which you may want to redirect all your website visitors to a single, primary domain in Apache.
I have recently implemented this on my own website, and I would like to share this Apache trick in this article.
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The Great Big Cloud Hosting Speed Test 2017
2017 was an exciting year for the bigger players in the cloud hosting arena.
With several improvements launched by the big cloud hosting players, I thought it would be interesting to focus on a key metric of hosting providers that many overlook: network speed.
Most modern cloud hosting providers give your dedicated server or VPS a 100Mbps or 1Gbps network connection. But how close can you actually get to that speed?
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Content Delivery Networks can improve your website’s performance
Content Delivery Networks were created for one reason: to speed up your websites and web applications. In this article, I explore how you can take advantage of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to improve your website performance for a small cost.
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Simply Remind Me: my first SaaS application
It’s rare for commercial software developers, such as myself, to get to use the software we write. We rely on our users to report problems or suggest new features for the applications we develop.
It’s also difficult to try out new technologies or methodologies without having a “real” application to build or experiment on.
Therefore when I read about a PHP development framework (Laravel) that looked so interesting I just had to try it out, I came up with the idea of an application...
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Hello, world!
Fellow software developers will understand the meaning behind the title of this post.
“Hello, world!” is the typical statement used in programming tutorials when learning to write software – and it’s usually the first words someone entering the wonderful world of software development will teach a computer application to say.