Migrating to new web hosting

No, I’m not moving to new hosting company this post is for your easier migration. For some reason your current web hosting is not appropriate anymore, either by price, availability or supported services. I won’t get in any discussions like “this hosting company is better than this one” it’s up to you to decide where you want to migrate. I often see lot’s of new and inexperienced webmasters that are moving for the first time, the horrors they are facing, web portals not functioning after migration, unsatisfied website users (and webmasters), pain and agony of migration, usually resulting to be first and last migration in sites lifetime. Usually it doesn’t have to be that stressful. Here you will find some helpful tips & tricks for easy & painless migration of your linux based hosting package to new provider

Before we begin

You must be aware of some things. There are many kinds of hosting companies ranging form ones with very low prices and huge amounts of resources they offer in packages and ones with high prices, low resources and services. Both have their advantages and disadvantages it’s up to you to carefully wage and thoroughly study both.
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2008
12/09
CATEGORY
Linux
PHP
programing
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Ajax problem in Firefox 3 on Ubuntu

Surely you have experienced slow browser, and slow load times, but the fact is on some pages Firefox is extremely slow and unresponsive. It can get even to some system lockups, music stalling and similar issues. This system lockups and stalls lead me to believe there is something more than pure browser hick ups. Hoping for upgrades to resolve issues left me with this problem almost 2-3 months.

As I started to search for solution I stumbled on bug #223238 describing this issue. What seams to be the problem is Firefox’s 3 new features that are directly calling some bugy Nvida functions thus resulting in system lockups, and degraded performance. To test if you do have a problem you can simply browse to this link: http://www.craftymind.com/factory/guimark/GUIMark_HTML4.html if you get very low and unresponsive framerate you are effected and should read on how to fix it.

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2008
11/24
CATEGORY
LInux Desktop
5 comments

64-bit Adobe flash player for Linux

After very big noise from Linux community, Adobe recently issued alpha version of its 64-bit flash player for  Linux architecture. Surprisingly even if it’s alpha it works perfectly.

To install it you will have to remove any existing flash player on your system. Running two flash players will only bring bad things to your browser. You can download Adobe’s 64-bit flash player from here, and you can read about installation instructions in rest of this post.

Simple step by step instructions:

Open your terminal and type:

cd ~/
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

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2008
11/21
CATEGORY
LInux Desktop
Linux
1 comment

SSH basics

ssh

Using ssh and its functionality should be a second nature to all Linux sysadmins, for some users some aspects of ssh are still a mystery, so let’s shed some light on it. Here you will not learn basics shell commands and usage, I will simply try to explain usage of ssh protocol itself, and it benefits. How to use ssh, how to setup keys, how to use ssh agent that will enable some extra functionality for programs like scp and mscp.

First of all what is ssh?

SSH is client-server secure shell network protocol usually used for remote host or network device administration. Other than that it allows secure tunneling, TCP port and X11 forwarding, file transfers.

For now, let’s stick to remote host administration. I’ll be focusing on ssh client rather than configuring ssh server, suffice to say ssh server is a daemon running on remote host and listening on tcp port 22.

SSH client is a program used to connect to sshd on remote host.
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2008
11/17
CATEGORY
Linux
Power of shell
2 comments

Gnome global hotkeys

This ain’t really rocket science procedure, but I find it to be very useful in my daily work. I’ve familiarized myself with standard gnome hot keys and keyboard shortcuts, but there is always something missing.

I found myself extensively using gnome-terminal but they ain’t no shortcuts for it, so the next best thing is to put a launcher on panel or desktop, or to run it via ALT-F2 then typing gnome-terminal. However its very annoying to leave my hands from the keyboard while in a so here is a simple step by step howto create gnome custom global keyboard shortcuts.

Start your gconf editor by opening your terminal and typing:

gconf-editor

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2008
10/29
CATEGORY
LInux Desktop
1 comment