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Nov
2015
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Oct
2015
Happy Halloween!
21
Oct
2015
Using Owncloud With CloudFlare
In the last article, we discussed the option of using Cloudflare for free SSL, DDoS protection, and so on. While configuring CloudFlare they give you the option to use their new tool called the Rocket Loader™ which speeds up page loading times, but can also cause problems with when loading interactive Javascript applications such as Owncloud. When Rocket Loader™ is enabled it can speed up webpage loading times but the speed difference is nominal compared to it being off. However, the Owncloud login page was broken after enabling Rocket Loader™. Upon arriving on the page, the login button was already depressed even though no information had been entered into the login form. A quick fix, and the only fix that I know of for this is to turn Rocket Loader™ off, and then dump the cache. After that the login page should become usable again. Hopefully, this helps!
18
Oct
2015
Free SSL, CDN, and DDoS Protection from Cloudflare!
Have you ever wanted to secure your website with SSL to protect it and its users from MITM (man in the middle attacks)? Or increase your load times from different parts of the world? Well now you can for a whopping cost of $0. That’s right for free!
Ok, enough with the sales pitch if you want to do all of the above use cloudflare.com. CloudFlare hosts tons of websites ranging from first websites to websites with millions of users. The free plan provides you with basic DDoS protection, a CDN (content delivery network), a free SSL certificate, and much more. DDos protection will protect your website from crashing due to a high influx of users either created by hackers or innocently by people who just want to view your content.
The setup is relatively simple as you just have to go to cloudflare.com, create an account, add your website, and then transfer your nameservers for your domain to the ones that will be provided by CloudFlare. It says that it takes a few hours to transfer your domain, but it really only takes a couple on minutes. Once it is all synced up you will be able to configure your server from the control panel.
Here is a simple tutorial from Digital Ocean on how to integrate CloudFlare with a Digital Ocean Droplet: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-mitigate-ddos-attacks-against-your-website-with-cloudflare
12
Oct
2015
Changing the Owncloud Login Logo
Hello Everyone!
Today, we are going to change our default Owncloud logo from the one shown below:
- First, go to your Owncloud folder on your server. If you are running a default Owncloud instance on Ubuntu with Apache as the webserver the default path would probably be:
/var/www/html/owncloud
- Once you are there go to the core folder and then the img folder.
- You will find two files that you want to change. There is a logo.png and a logo.svg file.
- Simply upload your own version of the logo.png and the logo.svg file and you will have successfully changed your logo. (Note: If you are having problems trying to convert your logo to a .svg it is not all that big a deal because I have found that if you just change one line of the css code you don’t need a .svg.
- To change your logo from a svg to a png go to your main Owncloud folder.
- If you are running Apache on an Ubuntu Server your default Owncloud folder is probably: /var/www/html/owncloud (This is the same path that is mentioned above).
- Then go into your core folder.
- Then go into your css folder and open up the header.css file.
- On line 73 of the file you should find a line named:
background-image: url(../img/logo.svg);
- Once you are done change the line should look like this:
background-image: url(../img/logo.png); (Also as shown above)
- Once you have found this line change logo.svg to logo.png and save and close the file as shown above.
- Restart your Apache Server and you are good to go!
29
Aug
2015
How to Remove a Linode Server
Want to uninstall or remove a Linode server? The following video will show you how.
29
Aug
2015
How to Create a Linode Server
If you have been looking around for a web hosting company that utilizes ssds you have probably heard of Digital Ocean.
Digital Ocean is a great web host but if you want some variety or if you want to try a different
all ssd hosting company you should check out Linode.
To learn more about pricing click the following link: https://www.linode.com/pricing
29
Aug
2015
Restoring a Digital Ocean Snapshot
Want to learn how to restore a Digital Ocean Snapshot? The video below will show you how.
29
Aug
2015
Digital Ocean Vs Linode Speed Test
Hello everyone! Today we tested the download, disk write, and disk read speeds. Here is a data table with the results of the tests.
You can also download the PDF at the bottom of the page if you want to save it on your computer
| Speed in MB/s | Speed in MB/s | ||||
| Test Type | Test Number | Location | Test | Digital Ocean | Linode |
| Download | 1 | Internet | wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test | 18.7 | 13.9 |
| Download | 2 | Internet | wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test | 16.2 | 11.7 |
| Download | 3 | Internet | wget speeds from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test | 15 | 10.2 |
| Average | 16.63 | 11.93 | |||
| Test Type | Test Number | Location | Test | Digital Ocean | Linode |
| Write | 1 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 364 | 292 |
| Write | 2 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 395 | 306 |
| Write | 3 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 390 | 290 |
| Write | 4 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 379 | 294 |
| Write | 5 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 383 | 298 |
| Write | 6 | Disk | sync; dd if=/dev/disk of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync | 408 | 301 |
| Average | 386.5 | 296.83 | |||
| Test Type | Test Number | Location | Test | Digital Ocean | Linode |
| Read | 1 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 887 | 546 |
| Read | 2 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 1,228.80 | 642 |
| Read | 3 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 945 | 594 |
| Read | 4 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 1,126.40 | 582 |
| Read | 5 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 987 | 651 |
| Read | 6 | Disk | dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 | 1,126.40 | 692 |
| Average | 1,050.10 | 617.83 |
26
Aug
2015
Fixing Cleantalk Anti-spam
Have you had this error before?
Just for a little background I am running Drupal 7.39 with the Cleantalk Anti-spam module version 1.3. I tried updating to
version 1.4, however, I did not have any success.
The solution to the problem is to actually quite simple. If you can make a pound sign # then you can fix your problem.
I found that commenting out line 646, clearing my cache, and logging in again fixed the problem.
I hope this helps!
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