Happy new years everyone! Last year I posted some of my resolutions for last year (2008) and so I thought that this would be a good time to look at 2008 in review and introduce my 2009 resolutions.
SSH on your iPhone with TouchTerm
I’m about to walk out the door to catch a movie this evening and I get an SMS alert from Pingdom that my server is down. “That’s strange, I haven’t even logged into the server today,” I think to myself. I hop on my Mac to check things out and it definitely is down. I hurriedly attempt an emergency console…
How I use Pingdom’s HTTP Custom Feature
One of the biggest annoyances to me when doing research on the internet is when I find an enticing summary from a search engine query, but, when I try to access the resource, the website is not accessible because [the database server was down | enter your reason here]. This is why for the year…
WordPress HTTP Error with Nginx
While trying to upload a 4mb PDF file using the WordPress 2.7 media manager, I received a very unhelpful “HTTP Error” message. I found several references to mod_security being the problem, but that was for Apache setups. I finally stumbled on the true error by using the Browser uploader instead of the flash uploader. The…