Server

2026-07-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th July 2026

Setting up a central bastion/jump server

Having a central host your team uses for SSH connections centralises configuration

2026-07-17T00:00:00.000Z 17th July 2026

Notify Slack when an SSH connection is made with sshpiper

For transparency and audits, send Slack notifications when someone connects to a live server

2026-05-27T00:00:00.000Z 27th May 2026

Set up a private packagist using a server and open source

Packeton is an open source clone of Packagist you can run yourself

2025-11-06T00:00:00.000Z 6th November 2025

Keeping RustFS clear of old assets

How to delete old files to save server space

2025-10-12T00:00:00.000Z 12th October 2025

Setting up RustFS as an Amazon S3 replacement

Replacing Amazon S3 and/or MinIO with RustFS

2023-02-07T00:00:00.000Z 7th February 2023

Server tools - htop and apache server status

As a starting point with the server tool debugging, this blog post explores htop and setting up a server status page with Apache

2021-03-08T00:00:00.000Z 8th March 2021

How to migrate your Gitlab instance to a new server

I recently migrated our Gitlab server install from one server to another. With the help of a few tutorials it was fairly painless, however I thought I would outline the steps here

2020-11-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th November 2020

What is a server?

Liquid Light

Servers power the internet and have done since the creation of it. All the websites in the world run on servers (with varying levels of web interfaces & logins). So what are they, how do they work and what do Liquid Light typically use?

2020-04-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th April 2020

Setting up Tiny Tiny RSS to collate feeds

I set up Tiny Tiny RSS as a self-hosted feed reader, but it wasn't clear how get the application to fetch RSS feeds in the background. This blog post gives a walkthrough

2019-06-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th June 2019

Linux Debian user commands

To save me Googling, I have collated all the user-related commands I often use - particularly useful when setting up a new VM!

2019-06-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th June 2019

Getting started with Xen - setting up virtual machines

Xen is a basic but powerful package for linux which allows you to create virtual machines, A rival to Vagrant, Xen has less configuration (but is potentially less "agile")

2017-09-05T00:00:00.000Z 5th September 2017

Change ownership of all folders and subfolders or files

Changing permissions on files and folders can be tedious, so why not do it in one fell swoop?

2017-07-23T00:00:00.000Z 23rd July 2017

Don't require password for sudo commands as non-root user

Sometimes you don't want to have to enter your password every time you run a sudo command - this blog post walks you through disabling that.

2017-05-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th May 2017

Find folders on a linux server that do not have a file

I needed to locate any folder following a particular pattern that did not have a particular file. The command allows you to locate the folders and perform actions on them.

2016-10-23T00:00:00.000Z 23rd October 2016

Set up a new Virtual Private Server (VPS)

How to set up a new VPS with all the expected features and functionality

2011-02-21T00:00:00.000Z 21st February 2011

Redirect to one central domain - htaccess

If you would like to 'redirect' all your users to a central domain (for example if you would like all users to browse your site with the www or you have several parked domains)