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Just thought I would drop a quick blog and link to this nice succinct guide for setting up SSH to be able to log in via public key.
SSH public key tutorial
Using public keys offers you a more secure way of logging into an SSH server and also opens up the possiblity of being able to [...]

If you have recently bought a domain name and updated the nameservers to point to your new hosting, or if you are moving hosts and have update the nameservers for your existing domain name then for a period of up to 48 hours people who type in your domain name into their web browser might [...]

Check out this little snippet of htaccess code to force SSL usage. Works regardless of port.
PLAIN TEXT
CODE:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

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If you are administering a plesk server running version 8.x then you are likely dealing with phpMyAdmin version 2.8.x.x which has a bug that prevents you from performing database copy operations due to one missing space in the generated SQL.
One possible solution here is to simply install phpMyAdmin in its own right and of course [...]

The scenario here is that you have access to two servers - old and new - and you want to copy a site + database from old server to new server directly.
You have root SSH access to both servers.
1. Create a TAR archive of the document root for the site on the old server.
Log [...]

For a webmaster that relies on their site as their source of income, such as an ecommerce shop - it can be terrible to see the site become unavailable.. if no one can access your site then you won't make any money!
However, sometimes its not that your site has gone down but that there is [...]

There is a lot of buzz at the moment surrounding VPS hosting. For those of you who are not familiar with VPS, or virtual private server hosting - it is similar to shared hosting in that you are sharing a physical server with other web sites. The big difference is that with a VPS, you [...]

While recently migrating a client from a dedicated server which was proving a little too expensive over to one of the great value Linux Virtual Private Servers offered by Web Fusion, I found myself frustrated with the 2mb upload limit apparent in the control panel side of things.
So I went and edited the php.ini to [...]