We have a Windows Server running multiple WordPress sites on MySQL. We've always relied on plugins such as BackWPup to handle backups. But because multiple users have access to and maintain these sites, it's difficult to make sure that the backup plugins remain untouched and continue to function properly. For that reason I decided to — Continue reading »
Migrating To Cloud, Digital Ocean, Cloudflare
📆 July 22, 2021
When I started this site decades ago, I followed the usual path at that time to launch sites, shared hosting. There were many vendors to choose from but nothing like the quantity and diversity of what’s available today. I registered the domain, settled on a small vendor for $5/month, got my cPanel and terminal login — Continue reading »
JAMstack - How To Make The Web Slower
📆 April 23, 2021
Starting a few years ago everywhere you look, sites are getting updated with a new approach known as JAMstack. JAM, initials for JavaScript, API, and Markup is lauded as more revolutionary, more scalable, speedier, and more flexible than the older style website development. Some of these claims may be true but for the most part — Continue reading »
From Sendmail To G Suite Gmail
📆 September 17, 2020
In a previous post I covered updating my self-hosted Sendmail program to the newest version with some additions such as TLS 1.2 and DKIM. The version 8.15.2 at the time of my update was nearly five years old. Interestingly, less than two months after my update Sendmail released a new version 8.16.1 . Now it — Continue reading »
Super Organic Raspberries
📆 September 7, 2020
Hiking has a lot of benefits, but if done at the right time, at the right place and with a bit of attention, treasures like this super organic cluster of raspberries can be had for the price of zero. No rinsing required! — Continue reading »
Does It Make Sense To Self-Host Mail Server?
📆 April 22, 2020
I have operated hashemian.com for over 2 decades now, earlier on hosted servers and eventually on my own server. During that time the domain has also been email capable, accepting and delivering emails sent to/from addresses such as [email protected]. This was also originally hosted but was eventually ported to my own server. The product of — Continue reading »
Building New PHP 7.3 on Old Fedora 14 Linux
📆 September 9, 2019
I have mentioned before this server runs on old hardware and Fedora Core 14. That’s a 9-year-old OS which in terms of software, it’s like 3 times its life expectancy at this point. Fedora is almost on version 31 now. Keeping old OS around can be real hassle, but then again so is updating and — Continue reading »
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