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If you are a Linux newbie and if you are used to Amazon EC2 or any other VPS control panels, Google Compute Engine terminal system will be confusing for you. Google Compute Engine uses Google’s own tool called gcutil tool to manage Compute Engine and its resources. Not only using it but configuring it is bit hard for […]

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OpenVPN Auto installer

by Ruchira on May 23, 2013

Auto installers are designed to make your life easy. Installing and configuring things like Nginx and OpenVPN can be hard for novices. You can use the Nginx Autoinstaller listed on my blog if you need that, but what about OpenVPN? OpenVPN-AS is free and comes with a great web based control panel, but the problem […]

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Are you using a DSL modem/router to connect to the internet? Mostly everyone I found haven’t changed the default user name and password which is used to login to the modems admin panel. Most modems comes with the default user/pass combination of admin/admin , admin/password. So what is the risk of not changing these logins? Most of […]

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http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/420176_10150632396635768_2036862295_n.jpg See the link above? Yes its a direct link to a Facebook photo as most of you might have recognized at the first glance. You can see these links everywhere, or your friend might send you this type of direct link to a Facebook photo because He/She doesn’t want to know the profile of the person […]

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If you are using a USB HSPA dongle to access the internet, one of common problem that you might face is the low signal strength on the place that you live.  Low signal levels translate in to low download/upload speeds and higher latency. The level of signal’s depend on various factors such as the distance […]

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Nginx Auto Installer minor update

by Ruchira on May 17, 2013

You might know about the Nginx Auto install script listed on this blog . Its been almost 3 years since I have released my first modified version of it. Those days my version brought a lot of changes to the original version because my version came with the latest versions of Nginx , PHP.  But later on the […]

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Cheap Storage VPS servers

by Ruchira on May 15, 2013

You can use things like Dropbox to backup your files and stuff. But if you need more storage than regular free Dropbox account’s give you, you have to spend $9.99 per month to purchase Dropbox premium 100GB account. But that price is not justifiable if you are a sysadmin 🙂 . What if you can […]

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How to install PHP APC on LNMP

by Ruchira on May 13, 2013

Note : This is a part of https://www.ruchirablog.com/nginx-autoinstaller/ guide. APC Alternative PHP Cache, is a nice little caching add-on to PHP which can increase the performance of PHP significantly. APC works by optimizing the PHP compiler and storing the final compiled code in the memory. So this saves the burden of having to retrieve the source file from the disk […]

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