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 | Aug 2, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, Programming
So now that I have all of the systems setup and running for my websites, I needed a way to back up the data on a regular basis. There are of course many backup applications that you could use but I wanted something easy and cheap. I hunted around the internet for a...
by Dean | May 22, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Webtech
For the web applications I build a lot of them want to sent out an email to their users for many different reasons. (All these reasons are legitimate, for example sending our a link to allow the users to login, reminders about upcoming classes etc) This can generate a...
by Dean | Apr 12, 2014 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Misc, Virtualisation
Here are some of my notes in relation to assessing a site when it comes to VMWare and visualization in general. CPU The following items need to be taken into consideration in relation to CPU when it comes to visualization. CPU Speed (in MHz) Usage (Processor(_Total\%...
by Dean | Mar 29, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, Security, Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that I have my remote access machine up and running it is time to install the VPN modules into it to get remote access to my network. In my previous post I mentioned that I was going to use IPSEC/L2TP VPN. After some thought and investigation I decided to change...
