Category: Hosting
Unable to update Synology due to insufficient space
Strange message (and misleading message) that says insufficient system capacity for update” error, you must free up space on the system partition, not your main data storage I’m pretty sure I have sufficient disk space. Then after some googling, I’ve found out that something else caused the issue. Apparently, there is a “system partition” that
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Secure your admin section with Cloudflare
I’ve been using wordpress and other services with backend area that is meant for administration for a very long time. Often, these backend areas become the target of brute force (or other smarter guesses) attempt to gain access. To prevent this, since I already have Cloudflare for WAF, I’ve decided to make use of Cloudflare
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MySQL Workbench error: performance_schema.session_variables does not exist
Solution 1 Upgrade your MySql server. After the upgrade reboot the server Solution 2 This solution is not permanent. After the next reboot of the MySql server all changes will be lost. Solution 3 This solution is permanent. Locate and edit your MySql config file: my.cnf Under the [mysqld] config section add the following line: Sample:
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Setup freeRADIUS3 on pfsense with external MySQL (or Mariadb)
Ever want to have your Radius sessions, user credentials, user groups etc stored in external MySQL (or Mariadb) database instead of in system level config files? You can easily configure MySQL (or Mariadb) as your data store for all these information for ease of management. To do so, I have freeRadius3 setup on my pfsense
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How to add redis cache to your wordpress site
Have you noticed any performance issues with your wordpress site (or sites)? Is the query to database becomes a bottleneck to your site performance? Caching might be the answer for you. Therefore many caching solutions out there, the easiest, and well-known option is Redis cache. Obviously there are other options too if you want to
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Clean up docker images (Commandline)
Have you been exploring different docker images? Have you noticed your available disk space reduced significantly after a while? It might be due to your unwanted (unused) images sitting in your hard disk. It’s time to clean it up First of all, to find out what are the images you have on your system, use
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