A quick and simple command you might need from time-to-time if you’re running apache webservers in one or other Linux flavour. We often grab EC2…
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Installing APC on Amazon EC2 Instance
Some time ago, I wrote a short blog post explaining how to go about installing XCache on an Amazon EC2 instance to help with opcode…
PHP 7.0 Reaches End of Life on 3 December 2018 😱
If you, like us, were thinking Christmas comes round faster and faster each year, then you’ll no doubt think it was only yesterday that the…
Installing PHP SOAP – Need soapclient?
The tutorial below explains how to install Soapclient for PHP in a Linux system which is showing that this is not included. This may, for…
How to Get Size of Folder (and all its contents) in Linux / Unix via PuTTy / Terminal
If you ever wanted to know “how big is that directory?” and by this you mean the entire directory, and you have access over SSH,…
How to Use Sky Go (and other Silverlight 5+) Video on Ubuntu (and other) Linux
This tutorial describes how to get SkyGo working on Ubuntu Linux. Other linux distros may work, as may other video services, such as Netflix, NowTV,…
Silicon Dales Managed Hosting Servers – Dirty COW Free!
There is a Linux vulnerability known as Dirty COW which surfaced a week or so ago, for which there have been frequent warnings around the…
How to find file creation / modified date using Unix commands in terminal window
If you’re ever using PuTTy or another terminal window to SSH into your server and you want to know “how old is that file” (or,…
How to Update Linux on Amazon EC2 with Yum
It’s really quite straightforward to update your Amazon EC2 instance to the latest versions: Login with your secure key via your terminal window; then Type…