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Deploying a Node.js Server with Dreamhost

Aaron Belchamber — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:08:43 +0000

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Want to learn more about Puppet from Puppet Labs?

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:37:26 +0000

Even with smaller companies, I don’t think it hurts to look into automating more server admin and web development processes. Puppet is one of those DevOps tools that keeps popping up. I’m definitely going to learn more about it so here’s a link to a free e-book, “Essential Steps to Mapping Your DevOps Journey” on […]

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.deb files: Installing Debian packages on your server

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:31:41 +0000

Many awesome software packages like Odoo come with free downloadable editions, it’s much easier to install software and packages via the command line, but sometimes you might need to download the package so you have an image ready to deploy quickly. Whatever your reason, if you have a .deb file, that’s the package for Debian […]

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Windows performance lagging? Have you tried the free Piriform CCleaner?

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:10:41 +0000

It’s amazing how much bloat your Windows machine can accumulate, it’s worse than eating too much over the holidays! I ran Piriform CCleaner on my machine and it freed up over 2 GBs of unnecessary files. Lots of small files added up really taxes your system. Also, the registry tools worked superbly in improving my […]

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Oracle VirtualBox: Auto start your virtual machines on Windows server

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:23:18 +0000

All you have to do is know where VirtualBox is installed, change the path to it below, then also change the name of the virtual machine (VM) you want to autostart below. Here, upon boot up, I have one of my local development servers auto start “vm1”, which is a Ubuntu web server with a […]

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“Bitlocker Drive Encryption Service”: Thankfully, this is a Microsoft thing, thanks for not letting us know

Aaron Belchamber — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:04:30 +0000

Recently, my computer started slowing down. I heard nightmares about hackers encrypting data on drives and only unlocking the drives if you pay a ransom. How nice. Then, after Ctrl+Alt+Del and checking on programs running, I’ve started to see “Bitlocker Drive Encryption Service”. Sounds scary. Apparently, it’s part of Microsoft Windows. How many times have […]

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Virtual Box: Adding new user to your dev server’s sudo users

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:39:28 +0000

Log in to your server as root. At the server’s command line, type “visudo”. Scroll down file and add any usernames you want sudo access: “new_user ALL=(ALL) ALL” Find out more about “sudo” here.

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Virtual Box on Windows 10: New strange error causing failure to launch VM due to virus protection

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:04:22 +0000

Virtual Box on Windows 10 suddenly throwing new error “VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE”. If you encounter this, deactivate your virus protection and firewall and try to restart. Seems to work fine after turning virus protection back on again but whitelisting all Virtual Box apps should prevent this from happening in the future. It’s confirmed that even though I […]

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Updating to Windows 10 with Virtual Box? You might need to reinstall Virtual Box

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:31:14 +0000

On one of my separate dev servers I figured it was as good of a time as any to upgrade to Windows 10. It was a seamless update, kudos to Microsoft, but when I started up Virtual Box instance running on it, my network adapters were throwing strange errors. I won’t bore you with the […]

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Latest Virtual Box checklist instructions and resources to deploy new local WordPress and Symfony dev server in less than 15 minutes

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:16:59 +0000

These local web development servers are fast and free to set up. I always set them up on another computer so they’re available on my local home network without slowing my own computer down. Be careful setting this up on the same computer you want to use to write code, unless you have a blazing […]

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