Prometheus exporter for apache log files, used to monitor traffic to a website using Grafana, as well as notes about using blackbox exporter and node exporter.
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WordPress and mod_rewrite
Apologies in advance that this is a long and confusing post… Part 1: The problem I decided I wanted to migrate my old Land of Devastation website at http://www.landofdev.com/ over to a subsection of http://www.smbaker.com/. There are several reasons for this, chief among them being that the Land of Devastation website doesn’t really stand by …
Read MoreAdding custom CSS to a wordpress blog post
In the previous post, I showed how to create fancy mouseover buttons in wordpress without having to resort to the ugliness javascript. However, the post finished up with one very big issue….. You can’t include CSS definitions in a wordpress blog post because they need to be placed in the header of your blog. Well, …
Read MoreCreating mouseover buttons in wordpress using CSS
One of the issues that I ran into when porting my websites over to wordpress was the lack of built-in image mouseover capabilities. My previous website used dreamweaver, and had mouseover using javascript built-in. Of course, one simple way to do this would be to copy the javascript over from the old site into the …
Read MoreEditing the ‘/etc/hosts’ on your Vista or Windows 7 Computer
When migrating a domain over to a new provider, one of the things that you might run into is the need to wait a day or two for the DNS record to propagate. DNS is the service that maps your host name to an IP address that can be resolved on the network. Something that …
Read MoreMore wordpress benchmarks on godaddy hosting
Ran a few more tests and have some conclusive results… This time we’re going to see the difference between my original database (that had external access enabled) and migration to a new database (that has external access disabled). Experiment conditions – A random URL fetched every 5 minutes from a pool of 27 URLs. Only …
Read MoreWindows Live Writer
The next phase in the experiment is to play around with some editors. At the moment, I’m testing ‘Windows Live Writer’. Installation was fairly easy from Microsoft’s site with a few caveats. The installer automatically tries to install a bunch of Microsoft bloatware that I didn’t want (Mail, etc). It also wants to set my …
Read MoreOptiming wordpress with WP-Cache
In the last entry, I was fretting over lousy database performance adversely affecting wordpress. Since then I had a chance to install WP-Super-Cache and evaluate the effects. I’m operating it in “half cache” mode at the moment, and may try operating it in full cache mode later. This benchmark ran for approximately 8 hours and …
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