I recently moved a couple WordPress-based websites from an older Amazon Linux 2 based LightSail VPS to a newer Ubuntu 22 based VPS. These are my notes in case I want to refer to them later (with some info redacted for posting publicly). Ensure you can access and edit the domain records since the IP …
I have bought at least four of these routers (TP-Link AC1750, Archer A7 v5.0) for various purposes, so figure I should take some notes on my latest update. The main reason I’ve updated these in the past is for some VPN and advance routing capabilities I need that the stock firmware didn’t have. Ironically, I’m …
A simple example to launch terminals (gnome-terminal) with bash. This example launches 4 terminals; each monitoring the system in a different way. #!/bin/bash # [Eaxample] Helper script to launch CLI apps # Created to use gnome-terminal (e.g. instead of pterm, etc) ROUTING_TABLE_CMD=”watch -n 30 netstat -r” DISK_USAGE_CMD=”watch -n 60 df -h” ACTIVE_PROCESSES_CMD=”top -a” MEMORY_UTILIZATION_CMD=”watch -n …
I have used variation of this backup script for quick backups of typical LAMP stack websites (e.g. based on Drupal or WordPress). This saves the database along with the files into an archive… Depending on the website, there may be various non-web-accessible (private) directories to include in the script as well. Once the script is …
This is an example crontab for “rolling” daily and monthly backups. Typically, the “/from/location/” will actually be a daily backup that is rsynced from another physical location (I like to have backups across multiple physical locations covering daily going back one week, and monthly going back one year). First make sure all of your back …
