Author Archives: nigel

Nginx 1.0.0 is out!

Posted on April 29, 2011 by nigel

I just happened to check the Nginx website today and discovered that version 1.0.0 stable has been released! I immediately downloaded it and updated my web server. So far so good, I’m currently rebuilding my Nginx conf files for my … Continue reading →

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Joomla Lockdown Script for Apache

Posted on March 23, 2011 by nigel

One of the main problems with Joomla is that if you use an old version or a bad component, you open your server up to being hacked. I’ve had to fix this problem time and time again. It’s not fun, … Continue reading →

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Customer Uno

Posted on March 21, 2011 by nigel

Today was an exciting day, I launched my first hosting customer. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last 12 months working on my server configurations. Ironically, very little has changed from the original script Hone Watson gave me. … Continue reading →

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Switching on Artio Plugin causes 500 – Unable to load renderer class error in Joomla

Posted on March 17, 2011 by nigel

I’ve been developing a new hosting environment that uses Nginx and I came across an issue with Artio JoomSEF. Whenever I switched on the plugin the site would die and display: 500 – Unable to load renderer class This ended … Continue reading →

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Running with MySQL 5.5

Posted on February 3, 2011 by nigel

I’ve got the latest version of MySQL installed and running. I’ve spent quite a few hours setting up and configuring my servers. I’ve custom written my firewall scripts and finely tuned them (to the best of my ability) for my … Continue reading →

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Building infrastructure for isRaiding

Posted on January 26, 2011 by nigel

I’ve started work building isRaiding finally. I’ve implemented a small farm of VPS’s (Virtual Private Servers) to prove the technology I’m working with and to make sure that things will scale outward correctly. I’m still testing database performance for MySQL … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Outages

Posted on January 20, 2011 by nigel

Hi Everyone, there is going to be some downtime coming up for my sites. I’m upgrading my hosting platform getting ready for isRaiding. I need to rebuild my database servers and my web servers so my blog might be a … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Plans!

Posted on January 11, 2011 by nigel

2011 is upon us already and this year is shaping up to be an awesome year! I hope everyone has made their New Years resolutions and are actively working towards them. I’ve made 3 major ones and so far 2 … Continue reading →

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Protecting 777 directories with .htaccess

Posted on December 15, 2010 by nigel

Just like my file permissions there is one .htaccess file I cant live without. It’s super simple and will save you from major headaches! <FilesMatch “\.php$”> Order Allow,Deny Deny from all </FilesMatch> That’s it! It prevents php files from being … Continue reading →

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Linux Commands – File and Folder Permissions

Posted on December 8, 2010 by nigel

I regularly find myself dealing with websites that have been hacked and they almost always have weak permissions. Here are the 2 commands I cant live without: find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -type f … Continue reading →

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