Chronicles of Curiosity and Creativity
or a collection of random bits from a madman.
-
grumpy.land, a new TLD
I can’t help but feel giddy about how there are so many new TLDs coming out, creating new opportunities in a market where it feels like every domain you want is already taken. While the introduction of new TLDs and their increased usage may decrease price of getting a new TLD, I can’t also help but…
-
Watch Stuff Live!
Watch DDoS live http://map.ipviking.com/ http://www.digitalattackmap.com/ Watch Airplanes fly in live http://www.flightradar24.com Watch ships sail in live http://www.marinetraffic.com/ Just random & interesting sites I found. 😛
-
Installing Software RAID on Centos 5/6/7 via SSH
Considering number of dedicated server rentals that just gives JBOD, setting up your own software raid is quite handy. This tutorial goes over the very basic of how it’s done. All of this should be done under root. Let’s say you have 3 disks: sda, sdb & sdc. The OS is mounted on the sda, so…
-
Sphinx Search & Invision Power Board
I just finished tweaking Sphinx (and bunch of other stuff) for a client and sphinx was being terrible with full indexing! So bad on the first time that it brought the site down for a good 15 minutes and maybe another half hour of crawling speeds on the first run. This client’s db is bigger than…
-
Webservers & Caches
I’m a graph-diagram-table person. And when someone asks how web servers and caches are mixed, I now have an image to give them! Now we can visually see how web server interacts with a page cache in apache, nginx & varnish. And how user cache and opcache for PHP are separated by services like…
-
Review: Leaseweb Dedicated Servers
I’ve been a customer (on and off) of Leaseweb dedicated servers for about 3 years now for their 100tb packages. Over the years, I probably rented about 6 dedicated servers from them with at least one on each of their DC location (US, NL, DE) and currently have two active servers in Netherlands & Germany.…
-
Installing the latest PHP (5.4.23 / 5.5.7) on CentOS/RHEL
Method 1 – Remi Repo The Remi Repository (famillecollet.com) maintains the newest PHP for CentOS, RHEL, etc. And by newest, I mean newer than all other major repos. All you need to do is install PHP with Remi enabled. As of writing this article, Remi has 5.4.23 for CentOS, RHEL, etc. If you want even…
-
Understanding IOWait
IOWait definition & properties IOWait (usually labeled %wa in top) is a sub-category of idle (%idle is usually expressed as all idle except defined subcategories), meaning the CPU is not doing anything. Therefore, as long as there is another process that the CPU could be processing, it will do so. Additionally, idle, user, system, iowait,…
-
Diagnosing Windows – Sysinternals
I always found it odd that there are actually quite excellent tools made by Microsoft to diagnose issues with Windows but failed to include it with Windows while offering them for free. What am I talking about you ask? I mean Windows Sysinternals. Or you can get the full package by getting Sysinternals Suite. Sysinternals…
-
New WP Theme!
Two blogs in 1 day? Must be a miracle. Also seems like change of theme posts make a significant portion of this blog. xD This new theme is Montezuma By BytesForAll. Very clean and clear theme, something opposite from the previous which was a dark theme.
-
Settings for Uploading Large Files in PHP.ini
tl;dr version at bottom. A long time ago, when I pondered of good settings to allow large file uploads for PHP, I naturally searched Google. I blindly followed at the time. How could I have known better? There were millions of bad advices! But now I know better. And so in hopes to offset…
-
New Server!
Just installed grumpyland.com on a full SSD server. 😀 Loving the speed~~! I kind of wonder why I write random stuff on a site no one reads… (except that VNC tutorial… maybe I should write more tutorials)
“This theme is kinda interesting.”
Peter
Owner, Grumpyland