Until recently, and for well over the past decade, my wife and I have been nomads. Moving from the Caribbean to Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and now back home. This has meant that for many of those years, my home office basically comprised of a few laptops and screens. These days, we are more […]
Pinebook Pro – My First Impressions and Setup Tips
March 9, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxMarch 9th 2020 update: Two months later, I can report that although my Pinebook Pro still sees some usage, for the most part I’ve reverted to my old laptop. It’s a very capable laptop for the price and I still strongly recommend ownership! More on my 2 month feedback can be read at the end […]
atop – For Linux server performance analysis
March 4, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxWe’re all familiar with top, a real-time system monitor. Some prefer htop and previously I mentioned iotop for use with storage read/write monitoring. Lets looks at another popular tool for Linux server performance analysis: atop. Advantages of atop Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor which can log and report the activity of all server processes. One feature […]
htop: Quick Guide & Customization
March 4, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog Linuxhtop is an interactive system-monitor, but also a process-viewer, process-manager, strace tool and more. Sysadmins may opt to use htop in cases where Unix top does not provide enough information about system processes. htop uses a cursor-controlled interface for sending signals to processes. One example where this comes in handy is: you don’t have to type […]
Strip Down Apache to Improve Performance & Memory Efficiency
March 2, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxCan you believe that its been five eight years since the release of Apache 2.4?! Still, most Apache based web servers continue to run Apache version 2.2 or even 2.0. This is understandable for the same reasons why Apache web servers are still used more than Nginx… compatibility, official support and features. If you haven’t replaced Apache […]
Using CentOS CR (Continuous Release) Repo
March 2, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxCentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a Linux distribution that attempts to provide free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS is run by volunteers who work directly with Red Hat’s RPM source files and pushing them to CentOS for release. At times the project will fall behind […]
How to direct-install Debian SID rolling release using mini.iso (w/ screenshots)
February 28, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxThis post has been updated. Original post: May 20th, 2017. Last updated Feb, 28th 2020. For desktop, I’ve often preferred rolling release distros such as Arch Linux or custom installed Kali Linux. However, currently I’m on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Fedora 31. Ubuntu recently released 16.04 LTS 18.04 LTS which meant performing an in-place upgrade or complete re-install […]
Panopta (exclusive offer) Get Two Free Months
February 28, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxOver the years Panopta has listened to customer feedback; they continue to respond with additional development and improvements to their infrastructure, application and network performance monitoring tools. With Panopta you can easily keep an eye on the most fundamental metrics across complex infrastructure so you can identify the root cause of problems. If you suffer […]
Finding Linux Compatible Printers
February 24, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxHere’s all the info and links needed to find printers or all-in-one printers that currently support Linux. If you don’t want to spend hours comparing printers, have a look at my recommended Linux compatible printers. Last updated Feb 24th 2020, see Epson ET series below. Last updated Oct 23th 2019, replaced a few printers with their newer models. – […]
25 Best CDN Providers 2020
February 17, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxA content delivery network, also referred to as a content distribution network (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of data centers containing proxy servers. CDN Providers serve Internet content, including web objects (text, graphics and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, etc… closer to and thus faster, to end users. Some of the main advantages […]
Cache Everything (Full Page Cache) to global CDN Locations
February 11, 2020 by Hayden James, in Blog LinuxAsk yourself, if this page didn’t load almost immediately, but instead there was a blank white page for a few seconds, would you stick around? Around half of web users leave, if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load a web page. Two years ago I used Cloudflare’s Page Rules, more specifically the “Cache everything” […]