Chronicles of Curiosity and Creativity
or a collection of random bits from a madman.
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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)
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Entire site in SSL
Entire grumpyland.com is now in SSL. 😀 Why? Because it’s nicer. And some additional security in backend that you probably won’t see…
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Installing VNC for Centos 6 (VPS)
How to Install VNC on Centos 6 (VPS) Well, I usually don’t make these tutorials because there are often tons out there already available. However, I found the existing ones incomplete or inadequate to complete the task. So, this is meant to start from the very very fresh starting point. First, let’s install essentials to…
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Virpus!
Hello! Well, anyone visiting this front page (grumpyland.com) probably didn’t notice. Some visiting certain subdomains certainly have. But I have moved some of my hosting from my previous hosting, Hostgator (which is still active and hosting several other sites) to this new Virpus. It’s a VPS running with full WHM/cPanel. 🙂 I hope everything goes…
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Peter
Owner, Grumpyland