by Dean | Oct 24, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, monitoring, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The first thing that I wanted to do was to set-up a system that showed very quickly if the backups were running correctly. Originally checking backups was a tedious process. I would have to SSH to the box and check that the files were there, which was slow and...
by Dean | Oct 16, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming
So I wanted to display a 4 column table as part of a site. The issue was that I didnt know how many items I was going to have to display. It may be 1, it may be 3, it may be 4 or 5 or even 24. I don like to repeat code unless I absolutely have to. So I wrote something...
by Dean | Oct 14, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, monitoring, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
Now that My Book It is up and running, I have a lot of different things to keep track of. There are backups, maintenance tasks, student counts, invoicing, plus more to keep track of. Most of these systems are automated, they have their time to run and most of the time...
by Dean | Sep 21, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The goal of My Book It is to be highly automated so that it can run with minimal human interaction. It needs to run in this manner as I do not have enough time for it to be a labour intensive job. So with that in mind I wanted to automate as much of the student...
by Dean | Sep 15, 2014 | Crazy Idea, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, monitoring, MySQL, PHP, Tutorial
I have started to use Observium for monitoring. It is really good. To get better insight into my machines I have started to use the Unix Agent to view info about BIND, Apache, VMTools etc. I had a bit of trouble finding some clear steps about how to install onto...
