MONIT - Barking at daemons. Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

Monit monitoring on Ubuntu 14.04 VM on Hyper-V

Set up a Monit monitoring service for your websites and services. Monit is a free and open source service monitoring application which can perform various event-based actions. Monit can send email notifications, restart a service or application, or take other responsive actions. We set Monit up on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM, built on Hyper-V. And we use Monit to monitor several websites, and send out notifications on downtime.

Convert PHP ext/mysql to MySQLi

Learn how to convert PHP mysql functions to PHP MySQLi extension. The old ext/mysql extension is deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0 and therefore it's a must to migrate away from using it and towards MySQLi or PHP Data Object (PDO). This post will show you how.