For all my new sites, I'm using free OpenShift account. But it is not 100% stable. Now, I have 5 sites located on OpenShift, and at least once a week, I need to restart one of them (usually it's error 503). So, when number of visitors on sevennet.org exceeded 4000 per day I have decided to move this wordpress blog to my VPS. Here is a small instruction how to do that Prepare your VPS\VDS On your VPS you should have nginx\apache with php and mysql installed. I would recommend you to change apache...

Error during installing MySQL server 5.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 I got following error when try to install mysql-server-5.5 on ubuntu 14.04: [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'log_slow_verbosity=query_plan' After that I got start: Job failed to start To fix that: open /etc/mysql/my.cnf for edit and comment following string log_slow_verbosity=query_plan Then start installation from scratch: sudo apt-get install mysql-server

I'm hosting 5 of my sites on OpenShift. Sometimes I need to connect to my applications through ssh. On Windows, I'm using putty to do that. Here is small "how-to" about connecting to the OpenShift application. First, you need a private and a public keys. To generate them you need puttygen Open puttygen and press generate:   Move your mouse in "Key" area until progress bar is full. Then type your passphrase and press save private key. Also, copy all text from Public key section (starts from...

Here is the simplest way to check if AdBlock is enabled on your site: First of all you should create simple javascript file with following content: var isAdsDisplayed = true; Name it adsbygoogle.js and upload to your web server. Then on the page where you want to check if AdBlock is enabled or not just add the following script: <script src="/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <script> if(window.isAdsDisplayed === undefined ) { // AdBlock is enabled. Show message or track cu...

Вот и пролетел еще один год, 2014-й... Год выдался ммм.... как сказать.... нестандартным. Были как плохие моменты так и хорошие. Будем наедятся что в 2015 будет больше хорошего и меньше плохого. Но пост не об этом. Еще один год в истории моего персонального блога. Собственно, статистикой этого блога я и хотел бы с вами поделиться. Возможно кого-то это вдохновит на создание свое блога\сайта\портала и т.д. Итоги года: рост посещаемости на 500%, переезд на новый домен и рост прибыли в 10 раз На нач...

If you have previously used Apache you should now about a2ensite tool. If you start using nginx you probably find out that there are no such tool for nginx. You can use following command to do that: ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite and then restart nginx sudo service nginx restart But... I have found one small script that can do that for you. Also, it can display list of all available or enabled sites, disable site and automatically restart nginx. Just put...

Simple but working nginx configuration for wordpress based web site... server { server_name site.com; root /var/site.com/www; index index.php; location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; } location = /robots.txt { allow all; log_not_found off; access_log off; } location ~ /\. { deny all; } location ~* /(?:uploads|files)/.*\.php$ { deny all; } location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~ \.php$ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/ph...

This blog is hosted (together with mintchocolate.org) on a small VPS (1x2.8 Ghz, 256 Мб RAM, 10 Gb SSD). This VPS is shipped with apache2, php and mysql. As you can see I am using wordpress for this blog, also I have approximately 1000 unique visitors per day (half of them visit this and this articles). So it is good to have small response time. Apache First I need to measure how slow my blog is. I have used loadimpact.com to do that. This is result for apache2: [caption id="" align="aligncenter...

I have installed Android 5.0 on my Nexus 7 (2012, wi-fi) and that was the biggest mistake I have ever done with my tablet pc. I don't know, maybe the problem is not in Android Lollipop, but in my concrete device, but after installing 5.0 it becomes incredibly slow! First 5 minutes after restart it works fine, but then everything become soooo sloooow.... Here are some steps that can help you with downgrading your Nexus device (5 or 7) from  5.0 to 4.4 (or whatever you want). Download factory imag...

Sometimes you need to change android device id in your Android emulator. If you are using rooted BlueStacks image - you can use Android ID Changer. This tool works only on rooted devices! Download Android ID Changer