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NodeQuery Dashboard Widget for WordPress

19th May 2017 - PHP

Little tool here for you WordPress and NodeQuery lovers!

This plugin (NodeQuery Dashboard Widget) for WordPress will always be updated at the WordPress Repo: https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-widget-nodequery/

VestaCP Dashboard Widget for WordPress

17th May 2017 - PHP

Little tool here for you WordPress lovers.

This plugin (VestaCP Dashboard Widget) for WordPress will always be updated at the WordPress Repo: https://wordpress.org/plugins/vestacp-dashboard-widget/

Backup MX / Backup Email / Secondary MX Server – VestaCP

26th April 2017 - Linux

Hey guys,

I found a great little tutorial from me back on the VestaCP forums in April 2016 regarding a Secondary MX (backup email server) server for VestaCP – it’s really easy to set up. Essentially what happens is when your main email server is offline or under stress, the third party email server (the one sending the email) sends the email to the secondary email server. Once that happens, the secondary email server attempts to send the email back to the first email server.

Read on for more information.

Search Multidimensional Array in PHP

6th April 2017 - PHP

If you’re using PHP 5.1 or newer, this little function is for you! It’ll search multidimensional array’s and return the top level key so you can pull the data.

Redirect WWW to non-WWW in NGINX with VestaCP

14th March 2017 - Linux

This very quick and easy solution will help you redirect WWW to non-WWW in NGINX with VestaCP.

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in VestaCP with NGINX

14th March 2017 - Linux

Very simple trick here, but has a few people at a road block. If you’re running NGINX on VestaCP then the following will redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS traffic. Just make sure you’ve got a SSL certificate set-up and working.

Test Clamd (ClamAV Scanner)

11th November 2016 - Linux

Recently I had to test clamd/clamAV to do this today just to make sure my antivirus scanner was working. I’m a big fan of not installing antivirus software for e-mails, because I strongly believe SpamAssassin eliminates it however, sometimes your clients or e-mails have been around for years – and these days it’s getting even harder to eliminate spam and viruses.

VestaCP Tools Plugin

8th October 2016 - PHP

I have created a little plugin for VestaCP called the VestaCP Tools Plugin (obviously unofficial as they don’t have any official way to create plugins yet). It’s a super simple way to get an overview of what’s going on inside your VestaCP server. It basically lists all the domain names, mail domains, cron jobs, etc globally so you don’t have to login to each individual user to get the data.

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VestaCP Server Installer – The Perfect Server

5th October 2016 - Linux

NOW WORKS WITH THE NEW VERSION 0.9.8-20! 🙂

Please upgrade to VestaCP release 20. A security flaw currently affecting servers is present in release < 20. If upgrade is not yet available, please patch.

I decided to create the perfect VestaCP server installer script (in my opinion) for CentOS 7 (I have only tried it on CentOS 7). Basically, you run it, it asks a few questions and then it sets up a perfect server including CSF, Monit and PHP 7 (if you want it). Amazing, right?

Monit SMS notifications with TextBelt for free

29th September 2016 - Linux

TextBelt is a free service whereby you can receive SMS messages for free. It’s as simple as this:

curl -X POST http://textbelt.com/text \
   -d number=5551234567 \
   -d "message=I sent this message for free with textbelt.com"

So wouldn’t this be cool if we could integrate this with Monit? Well I did just that. With a few lines of code you can receive SMS messages when one of your monit programs goes offline.