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If you’re running Ollama on your Ubuntu server, you likely know it defaults to 127.0.0.1:11434. While this works for local testing, exposing it securely to external platforms requires a robust reverse proxy. In this guide, we’ll use Apache to bridge that gap and secure your firewall. Step 1: Enable Necessary Apache Modules To act as a […]
If you’re self-hosting a Blynk Server, you might encounter issues where your hardware (like ESP8266 or ESP32) or mobile app cannot connect to the server. This is often caused by the server’s firewall (UFW) blocking the necessary ports. In this guide, we’ll walk through identifying the Blynk ports and how to expose them safely. Step […]
Managing multiple domains on an Ubuntu server can quickly become a repetitive and error-prone task. From creating system users to configuring Apache VirtualHosts and securing MySQL databases, the manual overhead is significant. This suite of professional Bash utilities simplifies and automates the entire process, ensuring every new site is fast, isolated, and secure by default. […]
Have you ever looked at your server’s top and seen mysqld and php-fpm battling for 40% of your CPU, even though your traffic shouldn’t be that high? That was exactly the situation I found myself in this week on my Ubuntu server. Here’s the story of how a small missing CSS file turned into a […]
Hosting dozens of websites on a single server is a common challenge for developers and small agencies. You have the hardware—an 8-core CPU and 32GB of RAM—but for some reason, the sites still feel “laggy,” and top shows a high load average even with simple PHP sites. I recently optimized a server for this exact […]
In certain scenarios—such as internal documentation portals, restricted platforms, or SEO cleanup initiatives—it becomes necessary to explicitly prevent search engines and SEO crawlers from indexing content. Advisory mechanisms like robots.txt alone are not always sufficient, especially when content has already been indexed. To address this, we implemented a custom WordPress plugin that enforces de-indexing directly […]
When working with WordPress Multisite, a common point of confusion is user migration—especially after cloning a site using tools like NS Cloner.The key thing to understand is this: In WordPress Multisite, users are global. They live in the common wp_users table and are not copied per site. What is site-specific is a user’s role and […]
Deploying Django on a live server can feel tricky the first time, but once you understand the flow, it’s actually simple. In this guide, we’ll deploy a Django application on Ubuntu Linux using Apache2 and mod_wsgi — a stable, production-ready setup used worldwide. This guide works for: Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 / 24.04 Python 3.x […]
Adding a link to each post or page, allowing visitors to email a link to the article that they are currently viewing. This functionality is implemented using a filter hook attached to the page or post or to both the contents. This allows our custom function to append custom output code to all entries that […]
Beyond adding functionality or content to a site, the other major task commonly performed by plugins is to augment, modify, or reduce information before it is displayed on the screen. This is done by using WordPress filter hooks, which allow plugins to register a custom function through the WordPress API to be executed when content […]