Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Looking for abusive clients in your web server logs
Here’s a quick tip on how to find IPs that may be hammering on your web server: [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][plain] cat access.log |cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 2 |sort|uniq -c | sort -nk 1…
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Server Backups to S3
Backing Up Your Server, Locally and Remotely After my recent hard drive failure, improving my backup strategy was high on my list. My server has two drives, so what I wanted was a local backup on the second drive for quick recovery in case the primary drive failed, and a remote backup somewhere in case…
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Featured Member at HowGoodIWas.com!
I woke up to find that I’m the featured member at HowGoodIWas.com, an excellent sports brag and social networking site. Go check it out!!
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JavaScript Speeds
The JavaScript engines of popular web browsers vary greatly in performance. The variance in performance is surprising. Running this test: http://celtickane.com/labs/web-browser-javascript-benchmark/ On my laptop, here are my results (lower is better, your results my vary): Safari 4: 128 Firefox 3.5: 233 Camino: 615 IE 7: 1181 IE 7 is almost 10 X slower than Safari…
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Hard Drive Fail
The hard drive in my server failed in a nasty way. So things may be slightly broken for a few more days, while I fix up things one by one. Lessons learned: while backing up your data stuff is important (/var/www, /opt, etc…) DON’T forget to back up things like /etc and the list of…
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3G Card Speeds
3G Card Speed is pretty good here at Logan!
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