Moving IT services out of the United States
In light of recent threats from the United States of America, against their allies to the north, Canada, many folks have decided to move all of their IT infrastructure out of the USA, where possible. This post will contain where I have decided to migrate my services to, and will be updated semi-regularly.
Change default editor on Ubuntu
Setting up cPanel to use AWS SES to send emails
If you host your own cPanel server, you may have discovered that the IP address you were given on the VM is no good for sending email. Some RBL has the IP blocked from the previous owner spamming or doing malicious things with it. This little tutorial will walk you through how to configure cPanel to use AWS SES for sending emails.
Using imagick to create logo from text files
Convert a list of names into logos using Imagick’s convert.
cPanel hosted sites return Error 404 when using .htaccess basic auth with Apache
Easy fix when Basic Auth on a cPanel server returns an Error 404 page.
cPanel ‘Not using downloaded imunify360/repomd.xml because it is older’ warnings
Laravel Valet usage with special sites
Laravel Valet makes spinning up almost any type of php site on your local Mac a breeze. There are some edge cases where you might not want to run a site within Valet. On macOS, it is really easy to run other local sites using a custom Nginx config files.
Sending Nagios notifications with AWS SNS
Installing Nagio NRPE on Ubuntu 18.04 through 22.04
Upgrading Ubuntu 14.04 -> 18.04 - MariaDB issues
This post covers the issues I experienced when upgrading a remote VM on Ubuntu 14.04 to 18.04. Some fine folks online say “Don’t do it” and others say “I just upgraded 100 VMs without any issue”. If you are going to upgrade, ensure you have a good snapshot and backups. Upgrading is fraught with danger.