By Mistake We Can Get Partially Locked and Fully Unable to Perform SSH. How to Disable Firewall in Ubuntu Server in Such Situation? We have a To Do List For Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server Owners, but possibly a Not To Do List is also needed! The Credit To Solve Such Situation Fully Goes to Megan from The Rackspace Cloud as we said in our down to Earth post Why is Rackspace So Successful? … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
Why is Rackspace So Successful?
Why is Rackspace So Successful? Some Personal Experiences Shared Since 2011. We Hardly Required Help, But When Required They Were Quite Bad. There is a reason write this post. I think, good works should be appreciated. Few minutes ago, one server was fully locked after applying fix for OpenSSL Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160). The dreaded situation became, from India I was fully unable to SSH after a … [Read more...]
Ubuntu 13.10 LAMP Server Setup on Rackspace Cloud Server Video Guide
Ubuntu 13.10 LAMP Server Setup on Rackspace Cloud Server is an Important Step for Administration and to Run Web Software like WordPress. Practically, we have splitter out text based guide - Full step by step guide to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 13.10 on Rackspace in to several parts for creating this series of video guide. Apart from YouTube, this Ubuntu 13.10 LAMP Server Setup on Rackspace Cloud … [Read more...]
OpenSSL Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) : Apply Fix as Urgent
An Urgent Fix is Required for the OpenSSL Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160). We have described here how to patch Ubuntu and Debian OS. This OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) may impact versions of OpenSSL 1.0.1 on Linux Operating Systems to include: Debian, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, RHN and CentOS. We have been notified by the communities to warn our readers to fix and apply the patch. OpenSSL … [Read more...]
How To Install mod_pagespeed on Rackspace Cloud Server
Step by Step Guide on How To Install mod_pagespeed on Rackspace Cloud Server Running Ubuntu 13.10 plus Add On Tips to Configure Cloud Files. Basically for non-WordPress websites there is no advantage with Rackspace Cloud Server Performance Flavor (1 GB + 1 GB MySQL), with Redis Cache; page will load within 1-2 seconds. But, with the current development of W3 Total Cache type of Plugins with Self … [Read more...]
How to Run Rackspace Cloud Server Image on Local Computer
How to Run Rackspace Cloud Server Image on Local Computer? Will it not be great if we can run just a mirror copy of our whole server locally? Theoretically it is closer to the concept of Virtual Appliance. If you are used with the terminology, you can watch the video on Creating WordPress Virtual Appliance Guide. Actually, the thing recently has been made official by Rackspace by feature. We are … [Read more...]
Pygments Syntax Highlighting in WordPress
Pygments is Widely Known as Powerful Syntax Highlighter in Python. Here is a ready to use WordPress Pygments Syntax Highlighting Plugin. Those who do not know about Syntax Highlighting, can read this basic article on Syntax Highlighting. There are many ways to detect the programing language and Highlight properly. Those who are not aware about Pygments Syntax Highlighting, can read about it from … [Read more...]
OPEX Model and Cloud Computing
OPEX Model is often mentioned in the context of Cloud Computing. CAPEX, OPEX like terminologies are explained here in plain English. Operating expenses (OPEX) are the current costs to operate a product, business, or system. Expenditure on capital investment (CAPEX), refer to the costs of developing or providing non-consumable parts for the product or system. For example, buying a photocopier is … [Read more...]
To Do List For Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server Owners
Short Guide For Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server, Might Help the Users With Less Budget Who Are Unable to Bear the Cost of Managed Cloud. As because we might spin a different, a bit modified and hardened distro from Rackspace Mirror, we actually do not need all the precautions required for older non-OpenStack Cloud Servers. Practically, Rackspace delivers more than IaaS, it is towards Software … [Read more...]
Fix Sudden Error Establishing a Database Connection WordPress
Fix Sudden Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress By Following Our Logical Flow Chart Without Taking Much Sudden Headache. Causes of Sudden Headaches are not really great ! We are talking about fixing the typical appearance of white page declaring Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress all of a sudden in a five minutes ago working great website. This is not for those … [Read more...]
Create Inline Tweet in WordPress
Create Inline Tweet in WordPress Inline To Simply Create Hyperlinks to Share Content on twitter With a Twitter CSS Icon Font With Extra Load. Basically, what you read on our website are what they are implemented on high end Custom Themes. Practically, most of them are available as free software. When we are talking about CSS Icon Font, definitely we can use Base64 Encoding and HTML5 i class to … [Read more...]