I am just installing Nagios on a Digital Ocean Droplet and wanted to know what specification server to purchase. According to the Nagios website the minimum requirements for Nagios are: Monitored Nodes Hard Drive Space CPU Cores RAM 50 – 250 40 GB 1 – 2 1 – 4 GB 100 – 500 80 GB … Read more
I just visited the Headington Festival and saw the Headington Hillbillies playing. They were really good fun and played so great songs. There was also a really cool classically jazz pianist with a portable piano. The Headington festival was great fun and I’ll definitely be going next year.
I just discovered a nice little word count plugin which adds your the total word count for your WordPress site. I was really surprise to discover that I have written 23,700 Words over 3 years.
I’ve just launched a new website for our flat rental in Aberdovey called Aberdovey Sea Front Accommodation. We started to rent the flat last year and it has been going really well.
I’ve just been trying to buy a few hundred pallets and confusingly there seems to be licensed pallets and unlicensed pallets. A licensed (or stamped) pallet is a pallet that has been made to a particular specification and is guaranteed to carry 1 ton. All licensed pallets are made in the same way, using the … Read more
I just upgrade a server from Ubuntu from 14.10 to Ubuntu 15.04. The server started okay and I was able to ssh in. However, the login prompt said that is was a “Read only file system”. This means that I wasn’t able to run any commands to fix the issue. After a bit of searching, … Read more
Just discovered the brilliant online chess tool here: http://en.lichess.org/
We have just had a new baby and it’s being weighed quite regularly to check that it is growing properly. I’m an engineer and was wondering how accurate the scales that the midwives were using. We are based in Oxford and the scales that the midwives were using is the Seca 834 baby scale which … Read more
There are two variables which restrict the maximum media upload size to wordpress. There are PHP variables. Assuming that you are using Ubuntu and Apache then you should create a .ini file in the conf.d directory. Don’t edit the default php.ini file because this is sometimes updated by the package maintainer and there is a … Read more
I’ve just made a fresh install of backuppc on Ubuntu 14.04. However, when I visited the web interface then the browser just shows a bin file like this: Having a bin file server from Apache (or any other web server) generally means there is a fault with the webserver and the script isn’t being parsed … Read more