Backup Software Reviews Introduction This article is an introduction to a series on computer backups for your home or small business PC. We discuss the background of backups, backup best practices, and related articles review specific backup tools. The recommendations apply to both Windows and MacOS computers, but all testing was done…
Rotate OpenSSH Certificates on AWS Amazon Linux or Ubuntu
OpenSSH certificates are used to authenticate you against your server, so you can log in to administer your server. It’s a good idea to rotate OpenSSH certificates occasionally, in case they’ve someone been released or compromised. This isn’t something AWS can do for you, so you have to do it manually.…
Fixing WordPress indexes, foreign keys and auto_increment fields
I recently migrated a number of WordPress websites and a custom PHP website from AWS RDS to MySQL on an EC2 instance using the AWS Database Migration Service. I didn’t know beforehand that secondary indexes, foreign keys, and auto_increment fields aren’t migrated – this made a heck of a mess,…
How to Migrate from RDS to MySQL on EC2
Introduction A year ago I moved all my websites to AWS using the free tier, using an EC2 t2.micro and the RDS relational database service. Now that my year of free tier is up I’d like to reduce my costs. I want to migrate from RDS to MySQL on EC2.…
Remove Gmail Warnings: Setting up DKIM and SPF for your domain
Google has announced recently that they will show an alert if they can’t authenticate the identity of the sender, in both the Gmail website, Android, and Apple iPhone, instead of showing your contact photo. Read on to see how to do something about this by setting up DKIM and SPF…
Small Business Websites – What, Why, and How
Small Business Websites What Are They For, Why Do I Need One, and How Can I get One? My wife and I are away on holiday at the moment, I needed to find a small business to help with a service I required. Outside of the main centers of New Zealand it…
Recommended WordPress Backup Plugins
There are two main backup plugins we use for WordPress, UpdraftPlus and BackWPUp. Here’s how we configure them to back up WordPress blogs.
Google Postmaster Tools – Making your Email More Reliable
Google has just released a new service called Postmaster Tools. The idea of this tool is to give you feedback on the reputation of your email domain, helps track who thinks your email is spam, and reports delivery errors. It’s targeted at high volume senders – you have to have…
Windows Backup Software review for photographers
There are quite a few reviews of backup software online, but most reviewers just seem to copy and paste the marketing blurb onto their own website. That’s not really helpful. So I searched for the most popular programs and tried them out for myself. Note that I’m using Windows 10 technical preview, an…
Websites and WordPress Themes for Photographers
If you’d like our thoughts on the best websites and WordPress themes for photographers, hosted systems such as Good Gallery, SquareSpace, etc, read more below. Updated Feb 2017.