By default, an IIS application pool (or “AppPool”) recycles on a regular time interval of 1740 minutes, or 29 hours. One reason for this time interval is that application pools don’t recycle at the same moment every day (every day at 07.00 for example).
A change in PHP’s default_charset php.ini setting causes HTML output to break if you try to set a different charset in your HTML head. It also might break functions like htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars().
Learn how to turn off swap in Bash, because when a swap partition is enabled Linux starts swapping, which may degrade (MySQL) system performance
Here is how to install software packages during a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) deployment, without Microsoft Deployment Workbench (available in the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or MDT).
Easily setting up a monitoring service for websites and services using Monit on Ubuntu/Hyper-V, following these steps.
Relive the golden age of PC gaming. Learn how to configure DOSBox on Windows 11 to run classic MS-DOS titles, optimize CPU cycles for period-accurate speed, and set up a custom autoexec.bat menu for easy launching.
Sometimes you need to find all files owned by a specific user, recursively on your Windows Server NTFS file system. PowerShell has some neat cmdlets to automate this task for you and here is how.
With thousands spam reactions, disabling (and removing) WordPress comments is often the only way to go. Here is how to disable WordPress comments in both the WordPress Dashboard interface and in your MySQL / MariaDB database.
Utilize your cmd.exe or PowerShell command-line and use Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) to clean up the Windows Component Store (WinSxS) in Windows Server.
ECN is an optional feature that may be used between two ECN-enabled endpoints when the underlying network infrastructure also supports it. Unfortunately, having one ECN Capability enabled endpoint may slow down outbound network connections to outdated network equipment.
Cconvert decimal to hex hexadecimal to decimal and Unix timestamps in Linux Bash. A quicky for my archives.
How to set up a global Geolocation DNS load balancing Varnish Cache Content Delivery Network with Bind9, geo-ip database, Varnish Cache and DigtalOcean. DIY High-Availability for your website!
Learn how to optimize PHP performance by checking and setting PHP realpath_cache_size. The realpath_cache_size size represents the total number of bytes in the path strings stored, plus the size of the data associated with the cache entry
How to display commas in WordPress tags? And why have commas in WP taxonomies?
In this article you’ll learn how to start all stopped application pools that have the ApplicationPool.AutoStart property set to $True using AppCmd.exe or PowerShell. This is something you often or occasionally have to perform on various servers, for example when an application pool hangs.
A useful PHP script to check if your website is up and online available. It uses PHP and cURL. This script comes in handy because website uptime and availability is important, and you want your website to be always online available.
Exploit PHP’s mail() function for remote code execution. Apparently, if you are able to control the 5th parameter of the mail() function ($options), you have the opportunity to execute arbitrary commands.
Outdated but fun: PHP 7 with OPcache in IIS Express for Microsoft WebMatrix 3: create your DevOps with Microsoft WebMatrix and IIS Express
Learn how to override wp-mail() and send secure email using authenticated SMTP and StartTLS from WordPress.
How to identify, block, mitigate and leverage xmlrpc.php scans, brute-force, and user enumeration attacks on WordPress sites… Secure WordPress xmlprc.php interface and reduce service disruption.