SSH

Perhaps one of the least known tricks in migrating a website or a bunch of files to a new server is the ability to connect to a remote server via SFTP while inside of an active SSH session. The reason this is so handy is because many times a customer doesn’t have SSH access to […]

One of the most important things to do as a server administrator (“sysadmin”) is keeping the software that is installed on your machine updated and regularly patched for any security issues. Typically, on any Ubuntu server this is done by simply logging in via SSH several times a year (or after any urgent patch is […]

Updating WordPress plugins can be a HUGE hassle. Indeed, most webmasters are only aware of their ability to manually click the “Update” link next to various plugins in their WP Admin control panel, and aren’t even aware of other more automated options such as the free Easy Updates Manager plugin, among others. But there’s an […]

If you’ve dealt with a fair share of website or server migrations, you know how frustrating a process it can be — especially when dealing with a poorly performing or extremely locked down web server. Because of the (continued) dominance of the Apache/cPanel duo in the world of web hosting, many webmasters possess limited knowledge […]

Getting a fresh WordPress installation up and running is usually a bit of a hassle. Even with various “automagic” tools out there now like Fantastico or SimpleInstall that often come bundled with cPanel, there is still the issue of setting up a database, making sure all the install files exist (or deleting the junk left […]

Oh, snap… you’ve forgotten your WordPress admin password and the other password reset features are for some reason not an option. Lucky for you, there’s a surprisingly easy way to reset any WordPress user’s password using shell (SSH) access to your server, by accessing MySQL directly using a few powerful command line tools… After you […]

FTP is a fascinating technology, if only because its history is so rife with ambiguity. The modern FTP protocol (RFC 959) was actually invented way back in 1985, a full ten years before its more-famous cousin HTTP (1.0) was launched in 1996. Over the past few decades, however, HTTP began evolving much faster than FTP […]