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Continue reading →: wp: giving up on Cloudways SSL last strawWell, I’m nearly through my journey, the new Digital Ocean site is working well. It is sad I couldn’t upgrade the old one, but that’s the price of bare metal. The site I’m giving up on is Cloudways. I finally navigated through most of the problems, but the one that…
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Continue reading →: usb: Best USB C Cables and Magnetic adapter for a MacBook AirDave asked me what to get, well, I’ve been going through USB C cables like crazy and finally have found a reasonable combination for a MacBook Air is: MacBook Air Maximum Charging with iPhone The last thing to think about is the charger size. The default MacBook Air charger is…
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Continue reading →: wp: Redis Ubuntu Installation and PHP Opcode cacheOK, I spent a lot of time trying to figure both the Redis cache which caches various HMTL elements and the lower level PHP Opcode cache. For instance making sure there is no swap file so that Redis doesn’t thrash caching to disk instead of memory. Right now depending on…
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wp: InMotion Hosting 508 Resource Limit and VPN Blocking Cpanel
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Continue reading →: wp: InMotion Hosting 508 Resource Limit and VPN Blocking CpanelWell, I found the first issue with InMotion, I’m trying to auto post from tongfamily.com to three other servers (calvintong.com, richtong.com and richtong.org) and I got a 508 Resource limit error. I’ve never seen this before, you can look at Inmotion AMP > Cpanel > Resource Usage and it says…
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Continue reading →: wp: More headaches PHP 8.3 on DigitalOcean Ubuntu 22.04OK, as I finally get the following configurations in order. Note that from previous experience, we need at least a 2GB RAM server to not constantly run out of memory Upgrade 22.04 to PHP 8.3 for the system How to make the PHP 8.3 work is a little complicated, first…
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Continue reading →: wp: Digital Ocean Reserved IP Strangeness even if not the DNS Server, Litespeed fail, Cloudways ughoK, this is a strange one, so a quick note if you hit it. I’m trying to get a Digital Ocean WordPress up and no matter what I did it didn’t see to work. I”m using Netlify as the DNS Server but it would never recognize the new IP address…
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Continue reading →: photo: Argh Canon Pro 9000, Passport Photos, and HP Color LaserJet M478What a pain, I’ve had a really high-quality printer, the Canon Pro 9000 for years now, but Canon has unfortunately stopped supporting drivers for it. I have probably $200 worth of ink left and like my other Canon (which died some horrible hardware death). There was a rumble that the…
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Continue reading →: wp: InMotion WordPress and Restore from CloudwaysWell, I am now spending $30/month on Digital Ocean, $60/month on Cloudways and I can’t update my Digital Ocean Ubuntu 20.04, the dist-upgrade keeps failing and the Cloudways thing is just unbearably slow. Ironically, I’m finding the $10/month Inmotion Hosting to be much faster than a virtual server, but I…
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Continue reading →: apple: Utterly confusing sharing AirPods from a single iPhone or iPadThis is such a cool gesture, but I have to confess I simply always forget how to use it. No, you can’t find it in settings or anywhere sane like that. Even the Apple instructions are super unclear but here is exactly what to do: So that’s not too bad.…
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Continue reading →: tvl: Tessan 140W, Satechi 145W and Anker MagGo blinking and Cable StrangenessOK, I’ve been trying to reduce my kit while traveling a lot and the Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger seems like a wonderful thing if I can figure out how to make it work as does the Belkin 3-in-1 Travel charger with the same issues. Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger:…
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