Gmail allows you to define multiple “send as” addresses. So if you want to use your GMail account but send email from You@YourCustomDomain.com, this can be supported. But, to support this you need to have a server set up that will relay the SMTP mail for you. For security reasons Google won’t allow you to […]
Cloud Server Performance Metrics
It’s hard to really know what you get when buying cloud services today. Depending on the vendor they might sell their services with set amounts of “cores”, or “compute units”, or “vCPUs”. Storage might be spinning disks in speeds ranging from 7,200 RPM to 15,000 RPM or the storage might be newer solid state drives […]
Hosting, Linux, performance, WindowsSecurely “Wiping” Hard Drives
Being a tech person I know that just deleting a file from within Windows or Linux doesn’t assure that the data isn’t recoverable. Most files when removed using normal operating system delete functions can still be recovered with a variety of fairly easy-to-use utilities. Because of this, I historically have pulled hard drives from systems […]
Convert a Folder to an Application on a Remote IIS Host
The topic recently came up of the best way to convert a folder to an application on remote shared hosting server. Some hosts may have this built-in to their control panel. I know many (like Cytanium) have options in the control panel to create Virtual Directories, but sometimes an application specifically needs its folder to […]
cytanium, Hosting, IIS, System AdministrationChanges are not allowed while code is running
Got this error today while tinkering with some code in Visual Studio 2013: “Changes are not allowed while code is running”. I did click run earlier to check on something, but I had closed out the browser. So, to me, the code wasn’t running. But really it was. I scratched my chin for a second […]
Visual StudioRunning Hyper-V Inside of VMware Workstation
If you try to install Hyper-V inside of VMware Workstation you will most likely get the error message “Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running”. To get around this error, power down your VM. Then, within VMware Workstation, click VM->Settings. From the Virtual Machine Settings page, select the options tab. Under the General […]
Adding a Second Disk Live in VMware Workstation
I was installing Visual Studio 2013 today in my development environment – which I run inside of VMware Workstation – and it warned me that I didn’t have enough free disk space. No problem – that’s one of the wonderful things about running this in VMware, I can just add another disk on-the-fly with minimal […]
WordPress on Win08, Win12, and CentOS+NGINX
So… I’ve been reading a lot about nginx and how awesome it performs. It sounds magical! The Issue My blog (running WordPress) hasn’t been running as fast as I (or Google) would like. The TTFB (time to first bite) is often > 500 ms which is slower than it should be. I thought this would […]
Turn Off IE Enhanced Security Configuration
The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC) that is turned on by default on Windows Server drives me crazy. Being unable to download files, and constantly being prompted to add URLs to be viewed, is super-annoying. So, my SOP now is to disable that setting for Administrative users on servers (note: these are generally […]
System Administration, tip, WindowsHandler "PHP5x_via_FastCGI" has a bad module "FastCgiModule" in its module list
Below is a guest post by Desiree at OrcsWeb with an IIS/PHP/CGI troubleshooting tip: I installed WordPress for one of our managed clients recently, and what should have been a simple install, turned into quite a bit of troubleshooting. The client was running Windows Server and using IIS for their site hosting. Before starting the […]
ASP.NET, tip, Troubleshooting, Windows