About MariaDB MariaDB one of the most popular and an enhanced drop-in replacements for MySQL. It was created and is maintained by the original developers of MySQL. MariaDB is very interesting because if is fast, scalable and more robust than MySQL.…
Installing Varnish on CentOS 7.2 is pretty straight forward, start off by adding the epel-release repo. yum install epel-release With the repo added install Varnish yum install varnish Start Varnish service varnish start Start Varnish at startup chkconfig varnish on…
I recently got one of those new 5th Gen servers with SkyLake Xeons and NVMe drives. Obviously I wanted to find out the difference between these and standard Sata 7200rpm drives and Sata SSD drives. There’s a little utility called hdparm…
I was just setting up a new VPS when I hit this snag, the server threw the following error when I tried to start the LFD service Job for lfd.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered to the control…
CutyCapt is a CLI utility to capture Webkit renderings of a webpage and the resulting image can be stored in a plethora of formats. To install, first install the dependencies #For sanity sake install epel-release yum install epel-release #On to…
Kept getting this dreaded error on a new install: etho: Not enough data available yet The fix for me was to update the vnstat databases manually, issued the following command: vnstat -u
ASpell is a open source spell checker which is great at suggesting suitable replacements for misspelt word. To install the base library issue the following command at shell: yum install aspell Now you need to install the dictionary, you need…
Mod Security isn’t ready for NGINX yet, even though the ModSec website says a stable version for NGINX is available it still lacks important features. Because of this I’ve had to stick to Apache, but why not then make use…
To stop the firewall service in CentOS 7 issue the following at shell: service firewalld stop
Virtualbox is great, it let’s you run multiple operating systems on one machine while being completely free. You’ll need to start off by installing some prerequisites, issue the following at shell: yum install gcc libgomp patch dkms qt make yum…