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April 29, 2024 April 29, 2024 Web & Network

Ubuntu 24.04lts can be deployed on the most VPS provider

Hey, when I say you can deploy Ubuntu 24.04lts on the most mainstream VPS providers, it means someone like DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, etc. Ubuntu 24.04 Lts is just released in five days. Let’s sign in to my accounts and have...

April 18, 2024 April 18, 2024 Web & Network

Try Ubuntu 22.04 Lts Beta on Proxmox Virtual Machine

Ubuntu is the only Linux distribution I am using right now. I prefer to use LTS version. LTS means long-term support version. It is released every two years. The last version is Ubuntu 22.04LTS. The next one is Ubuntu 24.04LTS....

March 4, 2024 Web & Network

php.ini or phprc

About PHP, this question has been in my draft for a long time. I am going to finish it. What is the main difference between php.ini and phprc? Here is one quick way to get the answer, ChatGPT. I asked...

February 29, 2024 February 29, 2024 Web & Network

Upgrade Server Programs

Today, I upgraded a few programs on the server. Including Mastodon, phpBB extentions, and Chevereto. The first one is to upgrade Mastodon. My social media platform. I am using it as a tree hole. Of course, I accept new users...

February 18, 2024 Web & Network

Upgrade Mastodon from 4.2.5 to 4.2.6 to 4.2.7

I just finished the upgrades of my Mastodon instance. I saw this notice a few days ago. I just have no time to do it. I flew to San Francisco last week. To look after my father-in-law. He received surgery...

February 9, 2024 February 8, 2024 Web & Network

Image format AVIF and WebP

I just knew there was a new image format, AVIF, when I saved a picture from the Homedepot website. I did a very brief research and found it is a format based on the AV1 video format. The AVIF generally...

February 5, 2024 Web & Network

January Report of my Blog

Here I like to publish several reports from different sources. All the reports are based on the data from Jan. 1 to Jan. 31. Google Analytics I started to collect data in Google Analytics on Jan 7. So it is...

February 2, 2024 Web & Network

Critical security Update of my Mastodon instance to v4.2.5

It is just a week since I upgraded my Mastodon from 4.2.3 to v4.2.4. Today, I saw this critical update notice when I checked the Maston instance this morning. So, I went to the official release v4.2.5 notes to see...

January 29, 2024 January 29, 2024 Web & Network

The Top Five of my Blog

I checked my Blog in Google Search Console. It has a few useful reports. Such as Top Queries, Top pages, etc. First, Top Queries on Google Search. The four of five queries are all related to Proxmox VE. I want...

January 27, 2024 Web & Network

Upgrade Mastodon v4.2.3 to v4.2.4

Today I upgraded my Mastodon server from v4.2.3 to v4.2.4. When I signed in to my account, and went to the Administration, Dashboard, I saw the update notification. So I know I need to update my Mastodon Instance for safe....

January 10, 2024 Web & Network

Implement Umami Analytics

Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused, open-source analytics solution. It is a cool tool. I saw someone install Umami from source code or docker. I am a lazy man. So I just signed up and started to use the cloud...

January 9, 2024 January 9, 2024 Web & Network

My January Challenge

It is January 2024. This month, I have a challenge of Blogging. It is to publish one post per day. It’s very hard for me. I have never tried it before. I will focus on blogging only. I will not...

January 7, 2024 Web & Network

Domain Name Price and How to Transfer a Domain

This week, I am doing domain names winter clean. I have a lot of domain names that need to be maintained. How many domain registrars do I use? About twenty years ago, I registered my first Domain name at 1and1....

January 3, 2024 January 1, 2024 Web & Network

Replace Backblaze B2 with Cloudflare R2

Yes, a few days ago, I started to use Cloudflare R2 for my Mastodon media storage. There are three steps. 1) Download all the media files from Backblaze B2 2) Upload the files of step 1 to Cloudflare R2 3)...

December 11, 2023 December 11, 2023 Web & Network

What about the Backblaze B2 storage now

I have been using Backblaze B2 Storage for fifteen days. In the beginning, the data was not stable. I changed the settings multiple times. The Backblaze backend reporting is kind of delayed or 48 hours round. Today, I will recheck...