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...
by Dean | Sep 11, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Uncategorized, Webtech
When I was recently showing the Booking System to a customer they asked about a really handy feature. The feature request was for the ability for them to set a Sites Terms and Conditions and then have customers agree to this before it will allow them to use the site....
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 | Apr 16, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation, Webtech
Now that I have my load balances etc all installed and running (aka proxy), and the box for general websites is running smoothly, it is time to setup a LAMP server that I can customize for the My Book It software. What I want to be able to do is from a website...
by Dean | Feb 6, 2014 | General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
So the addition of the permissions are all working. The users have permissions, the groups have permissions we have lots of permissions in the database. So how do we use them? To do this we first need to get the permissions out of the database and into a format that I...
