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Getting a super UK host on a budget

19th November 2020 by Alan Leave a Comment

The biggest mistake novice website owners make is going with big name, cheap shared hosts, GoDaddy, BlueHost, 123-reg, IONOS and similar. They have great cheap deals which are very tempting for new businesses. Most of these brands are owned by Hosting Group Europe and Endurance International Group. Why are these brands not ideal, just search [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: Tech Tips, Uncategorised, Useful Stuff, WordPress Hosting  

Recipe for a Raspberry Pi Kiosk

8th September 2017 by Alan 18 Comments

I recently set up a Raspberry Pi as Chromium Kiosk so I could display a webpage on a wall mounted TV screen. I have written what I did in an easy to follow recipe format. If you follow configuration steps carefully you should be successful in setting up your Raspberry pi to work as a [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: Linux, Server setup, Tech Tips, Uncategorised, Useful Stuff  

WordPress Plugin install fails with Forbidden, you don’t have permission to wp-admin/update.php on your server

21st June 2017 by Alan Leave a Comment

This issue is fairly common on servers that are running Apache with mod_sec  ( mod security ). Mod security is a complex system that looks at the sort of web traffic ‘bay guys’ use to hack servers and stops them. In this case it is thinking that your actions are suspicious and blocks them.  This [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: Server setup, Tech Tips, Wordpress  

Problem with WordPress 4.8 screwing up your website layout?

10th June 2017 by Alan Leave a Comment

WordPress 4.8  has just been released, and many web designers have reported that their layout have been mucked up with this release. *** UPDATE *** Since writing this blog post I have written a plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-paragraphs-option-to-text-widget/ – that solves this problem in a very neat way. *** There could be multiple reasons for this, but [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: Code snippets, Genesis, Tech Tips, Wordpress  

Hugo: I’m receiving the message “We were unable to load Disqus.”

28th April 2017 by Alan Leave a Comment

When building a Hugo site you may well get  the message “I’m receiving the message “We were unable to load Disqus.” ” It took me a while to trouble shoot on mine. Basically Hugo them developers have a habit of setting the baseurl in the config.toml as “/” Your site will seem to work – [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: General, News, Tech Tips  Tagged: Disqus, Hugo

Google Compute Engine Snapshot automation

22nd December 2016 by Alan Leave a Comment

Google Compute Engine comes with an incremental snapshot capability. The product doesn’t have a specific automated method to take snapshots and to tidy them up either, but scripting using the gcloud command line is fairly straight forward, once you understand the power of the command line. I have seen many attempts at automating this using [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: Cloud, Code snippets, Linux, Server setup, Tech Tips  

Using GIT to deploy scripts to production servers

21st December 2016 by Alan Leave a Comment

This is how I use GIT to deploy script configurations to multiple servers. In this instance I have fail2ban  configuration that I want to be able to deploy to multiple servers easily & quickly I assume you are root – otherwise prefix commands with sudo as appropriate I also assume that you have remote root [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: Code snippets, Linux, Server setup, Tech Tips  

Submit A Post via Front End using Gravity Forms

7th December 2016 by Alan Leave a Comment

The following is a Gravity Form Form, that allows you to submit a post via the front end. It can submit as ‘draft’, ‘pending review’ or even ‘published’. Feel free to try it, and if you include a valid WordPress tip or other news I may even publish it.  

Filed Under: Tech Tips, Uncategorised, Wordpress  

How to Extract URLs from Google SERPs

21st October 2016 by Alan Leave a Comment

These steps are how to easily extract URLs from google SERPs Install Chrome Install Chris Ainsworth’s Extractor ‘bookmarklet’ http://www.chrisains.com/seo-tools/extract-urls-from-web-serps/ Install ginfinity plugin for Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ginfinity/dgomfdmdnjbnfhodggijhpbmkgfabcmn Set Google search to return 100 per page Run the query Click on the bookmark This summarises the steps detailed and provided by Chris Ainsworth at http://www.chrisains.com/seo-tools/extract-urls-from-web-serps/  

Filed Under: Tech Tips  

Backing up to gcloud storage from Linux/Virtualmin

5th August 2016 by Alan Leave a Comment

Using Google Cloud Storage as backup for your linux server is inexpensive if you use the nearline storage option. This is cheaper that Amazon Web Services (at the time of writing) The process I use is as follows. Backup locally Create storage bucket / folders, set lifecycle Script to move backups find way to execute [Read the full article…]

Filed Under: Google Cloud, Linux, Tech Tips  Tagged: Backups, Google Cloud, Virtualmin

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