If you’ve been reading my recent posts, you’ll know that we’ve recently moved into a new bungalow and have been renovating it over the past couple of years. Part of the renovation included redesigning my home office, including a new…
I’ve dabbled with home automation in the past but have been fairly limited in what I could do as we didn’t own our own home. As I mentioned in a previous post, a recent sequence of events means we now…
When I’m developing websites, I usually run a test website in a user directory on one of my web servers instead of setting up a new virtual host under the main web server. There are a couple of reasons for…
If you’ve ever used an iPad or iPhone to connect up to an ipsec vpn endpoint, you’ll be familiar with this screen. I’ve been using these connections for a while now, mainly connecting to Cisco ASA firewalls. I use these…
If you’ve ever configured a VPN on a Cisco PIX or ASA and used pre shared keys or PSKs, you’ll know that once they’ve been entered in the the configuration they simple appear as ‘*****’. If you ever need to…
As I’ve already stated in previous posts, I’m a bit of a paranoid server operator. I’m responsible for several servers that are sat out there on the big bad internet of things and I like to know what’s happening with…
I’ve been using the BackWPup plugin to back up my WordPress sites after a recent mishap. It seems to be one of the best free plugins that will take a full backup of a WordPress site. It not only backs…
As part of moving this website to a new server in order to try and speed things up a tad, I had to change some DNS records on several of the domains I own. I’ve mostly been using the free…