Author: Josh Sherman
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VPS Showdown – July 2021 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
I got a few bits of feedback recently that I took into consideration before doing this month’s benchmarks. The first bit was to include some additional price points and plan types instead of just the $5 plan. The other (opposing) bit of feedback was to start including some content that…
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Migrating from aws ecr get-login to aws ecr get-login-password
I’m not entirely sure when the change happens, but recently as I was upgrading AWS CodeBuilds to use a newer version of Ubuntu, I ran into some problems with aws ecr get-login. Without making any code changes, my build started to fail with the following: [Container] 2021/06/21 20:44:19 Running command…
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Get original URL from Bitly link
It’s been a while since I’ve actively engaged with a URL shortener, but recently I started to receive some text messages that contained Bitly links. The messages were phishing scams related to Coinbase, with a Bitly URL attached. Presumably, the link would take you to their site so you can…
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Using find with symbolic links
Symbolic links, or symlinks come in handy when you need to share directories with multiple directories and not have to worry about keeping each linked instance in sync. The problem with symlinks is that not every command-line utility supports them, and often times, they do support them, but it’s not…
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yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12
One of my favorite things about Arch Linux is the Arch User Repository (AUR). It’s a community maintained collection of packages for just about every damn thing you may want or need. One of my least favorite things about Arch Linux is that the Arch package manager, pacman doesn’t install…
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VPS Showdown – June 2021 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Have had some requests for some comparisons of different plans (like the dedicated CPU offerings) and different price points, but considering it’s the last month of the quarter, I figured I would just stay the course and stick to the same comparisons as I’ve done the past few months. Next…
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Unlock user after too many failed sudo attempts
As many of you may already know, I tend to blog about the real-life problems that I’ve run into in the previous week or so. This makes it easy to come up with blog content, but also gives me a dedicated resource to reference if/when one of these problems pops…
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How to push to multiple git repos at once
A while back I fell in love with GitLab, specifically their GitLab Runners. This was at a time before GitHub had GitHub Actions, so I decided to move the majority of my git repositories over to GitLab. Fast forward a few years, GitHub has Actions, and more importantly, it seems…
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How to install Node.js 16 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu tends to drop a new version of their April release shortly after a new version of Node.js drops. Every other year, this Ubuntu release is a long-term support release, which has a longer shelf life in terms of support and maintenance compared to their interim releases. True to form…
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VPS Showdown – May 2021 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Switching things up a small bit this month. Last month, I had introduced a “$6 VPS Showdown” as a separate post alongside my existing $5 post. This was all well and good, but best as I can figure, there’s no reason to have them split out, as most folks probably…