Articles
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As you may already be aware, I also write guides for Alligator.io. As of late, I’ve been covering a lot of command-line tools and tricks as part of a “Command-line Basics” series. I’m also a bit of a scatter brain…
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VPS Showdown – August 2019 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Never a dull moment in the world of VPS providers. In the past month, DigitalOcean switched up their C-suite and Linode opened up a data center in Mumbai, India. I’m switching things up a bit as well, bringing things back…
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Symlinks with Nginx and PHP-FPM
Recently I’ve been putting time into rebuilding the server infrastructure for Holiday API. This has included hardening the system to be more fault tolerant and building out a new cluster of web servers. The biggest improvement was [finally] introducing a…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – July 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
So when I published last month’s post, later that same day it was announced that Flywheel was being acquired by WP Engine. There’s no timeline on if/when Flywheel would be fully consumed by the WP Engine brand, so they will…
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How to exit Vim
I’m sick and fucking tired of being asked if the reason that I use vim (currently using nvim) is because I can’t figure out how to exit. I get it, you saw some stupid shit on Stack Overflow and you…
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How to upgrade from Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster)
Debian 10 is finally here. Time to upgrade all the things!!! The upgrade from Debian 9, code named Stretch to Debian 10, code named Buster is a fairly painless process. First, it’s good practice to make sure you’re completely up…
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VPS Showdown – July 2019 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Switching it up on y’all this month. By request by one of my dear readers, I’ve included Vultr’s new “high frequency” server in this month’s comparison. Traditionally these posts have been all the same price point to keep things apples…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – June 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
Wow, can’t believe it’s been 4 weeks since I started venturing down the path of reviewing managed WordPress hosting. Since this still a new post series, things are a bit all over the place, and I’m still working out some…
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A guide to working by the pool
Being a Florida Man in a past life, I absolutely crave the water. Not the beach per se, I can do without the sand. I’m talking about that sea breeze, the salt in the air, and of course the angry…
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How to downgrade Terraform to 0.11.x on Arch Linux
The latest minor version of terraform, the 0.12.x series, dropped recently and in true bleeding edge Arch Linux fashion, I’m already running it. Thing is though, the latest release of terraform, even though it’s a minor point release, does include…