Nowadays, this is practically standard, as most computers have both a wired and wireless NIC. But rarely do you have both connected at the same time. Have you wondered what happens when you have 2 connected NICs to 2 separate…
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Trying to be cheap, I only allocated 16G to my AWS EC2 instance. But I eventually wanted to migrate my wordpress sites, to a second “test” environment, to try different things in upgrading the site. But 16G doesn’t leave a…
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The t-series of EC2 VMs available from AWS, is a “burstable” series of VM. It isn’t intended for any high-CPU utilization for any longer than 1 sec. In fact, there is something called a CPU credit usage and CPU credit…
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Depending on who you are, there are two things that need constant monitoring in almost all cloud services that are usage based. And which ones aren’t? Fixed cost services, like a monthly fee for GoDaddy hosting that never changes, no…
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…DNS resolution only works between containers in same virtual docker network subnet Short description of when routing is needed A subnet means all the numbers in beginning of IP address must be the same. Only the end different. The subnet…
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Did you ever want to keep a copy of your WordPress.com in your own site? Did you want a copy of your WordPress site, just so you can customize it for your own purposes? Do you have a little experience…
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Most Internet browsers such as Chrome, Edge, and Firefox have network profilers where you get to view how fast your application serves files. This might give you insight on how your application works, and any bottlenecks that are available. However,…
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Aka. When going too far, means supporting groups. A moment to give Dr. Jekyll a voice… To distribute Wifi, to wired devices, or to re-broadcast it to other Wi-fi devices with weak Wi-fi capabilities, all you really need, is a…
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Aka. Sometimes borrowing has to go a little far. Literally here. I gave a quick primer of how to borrow Wifi from a neighbor, but few places are as densely populated as NYC. Therefore in other residential neighbohoods, borrowing wifi…
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As a former programmer, using Active Directory for permissions, it’s greatest asset is it’s greatest detraction: you’re trapped into the Microsoft ecosystem for system credentials. The assets were that Microsoft’s Windows platform provided a way to store the credentials that…
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