IP-changed notifier without crontab
I wrote about how to notify myself upon IP changes via email for Home Servers quite a while ago. The theory was simple; just one PHP script to detect the current IP address and compare it with the one stored in a text file. If the IP was changed, then update the text file and [...]
How to minimize website downtime while domain is being transferred
First off, most of us hate downtime, especially on our own websites (duh!). From time to time we might need to transfer the domain names from one registrar to another, however, we might experience some difficulties to keep the website online. The tricky part is that most domain registrar will either keep your original nameserver [...]
Notify myself upon IP Changes via email for Home Servers
I have set up a server at home and I do most of the PHP testing upon that server. Other than HTTP server, it also serves as a FTP server and a remote desktop (I am a Mac user, and I can connect back home whenever I need Windows). As I noted before, most the [...]
Upgrade from LNMP to LNMPA
I have been using LNMP (Linux Nginx MySQL and PHP) for a year and the way I set up using LNMP automatic shell compiler really allow me to spend more time on the actual blogging and not fighting with the server configuration. If you happened to follow my blogging, you might have noticed that I [...]
How to Reset Mysql Root Password for LNMP
I set up my server with the LNMP shell, and I happened to forget one of my local server’s MySQL root password. (I don’t know how this could happen, but it just did. ) It seems that I couldn’t use the the normal method to reset the password, weird. If you reach this post by [...]
Concurrent User Session with Windows 7 SP1
OK, I just updated my only Windows 7 desktop at home to SP1. This computer is mainly serving as a remote desktop just in case I need to grab something from home or I have a program that I must need to run on Windows. I set up the computer with concurrent user session enable [...]