If you’ve been reading my recent posts, you’ll know that we’ve recently moved into a new bungalow and have been renovating it over the past couple of years. Part of the renovation included redesigning my home office, including a new desk and monitor setup. Having always used at least a …
I’ve dabbled with home automation in the past but have been fairly limited in what I could do as we didn’t own our own home. As I mentioned in a previous post, a recent sequence of events means we now own our own home, so now I’m free to get …
When I’m developing websites, I usually run a test website in a user directory on one of my web servers instead of setting up a new virtual host under the main web server. There are a couple of reasons for this, the main one is I don’t have to change …
If you’ve ever used an iPad or iPhone to connect up to an ipsec vpn endpoint, you’ll be familiar with this screen. I’ve been using these connections for a while now, mainly connecting to Cisco ASA firewalls. I use these VPN tunnels for both personal and business requirements. In the …
If you’ve ever configured a VPN on a Cisco PIX or ASA and used pre shared keys or PSKs, you’ll know that once they’ve been entered in the the configuration they simple appear as ‘*****’. If you ever need to make changes or duplicate the VPN configuration on another firewall, …
As I’ve already stated in previous posts, I’m a bit of a paranoid server operator. I’m responsible for several servers that are sat out there on the big bad internet of things and I like to know what’s happening with them. One of the biggest areas of concern is SSH …
I’ve been using the BackWPup plugin to back up my WordPress sites after a recent mishap. It seems to be one of the best free plugins that will take a full backup of a WordPress site. It not only backs up the backend database but also the entire file system. …
As part of moving this website to a new server in order to try and speed things up a tad, I had to change some DNS records on several of the domains I own. I’ve mostly been using the free control panel provided by my domain registrar to mange the …
