Archive for the 'administration' Category

Using Bash to badly monitor your servers

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

I was surfing dzone and I came across two links regarding site monitoring. The first link was “using Twitter for server-monitoring” and the second link was, in a nutshell, making a PHP poor man’s ping without using Net_Ping.
Both of these methods have a little bit of a square peg in a round hole approach, but […]

Two simple tips to secure your production Apache server

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

This post could also be titled reason number 5,233,456 for why you shouldn’t develop on your production server.
The reasons why developers arent allowed on production servers:

To prevent circumvention of version control systems in the development environment
To prevent those moments of hubris that begin with words: “Oops a teeny bug, Let me fix that quickly […]