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Ubuntu 20.04 gksu replacement
March 5, 2021
After upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04, I could not run GUIs as root and gksu is gone. This is how I fixed that.
Read More Amazon Lightsail with CloudWatch Monitoring
November 4, 2019
I’m running several Amazon Lightsail instances as WordPress servers, which has been very successful, however I have been unable to monitor them effectively – until ...
Read More Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 networking issues
October 7, 2019
Networking issues after upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.
Read More Ubuntu 18.04 is missing gksu
September 23, 2019
After upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, gksu is missing.
Read More Lightsail install additional WordPress modules
September 9, 2019
Creating a new WordPress Lightsail server is as easy as clicking a few buttons, but what if you want to add more WordPress sites to ...
Read More Update phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu
August 15, 2019
phpMyAdmin is a great tool for administering MySQL databases, but updating to the latest version is not obvious.
Read More Lightsail add user for SSH/SFTP access
July 15, 2019
Lightsail comes with an admin account but you don’t really want to give this to third parties if they require access for support. This is ...
Read More Improve PHP performance with FastCGI on XAMPP for Windows
June 27, 2019
I have been using XAMPP on Windows for development for many years and found it to work quite well. Unfortunately performance is not that great.
Read More Add swap space to Amazon Lightsail
April 7, 2019
Only the smallest of Lightsail instances are configured for swap space. This is how to configure additional swap space.
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