When you need to change file and directory ownership, or file and directory permissions in bulk, these are some very handy commands to know. On most servers, you’ll need root’ish privileges to do this. Change Ownership & Group for All Files & Directories: find /home/your_directory/public_html -exec chown user_name:group_name {} \; . . . Read more
Yes, it’s true. We play favorites. And for very good reason! Over the years, we’ve dealt with dozens and dozens of web hosting companies. We’ve wrestled with their idiosyncrasies, we’ve seen them come, and we’ve seen them go. And in our experience, we’ve found Liquid Web to be one of . . . Read more
We here at Peaceful MEDIA have been building custom websites, building brands, and building businesses for a *long* time: with decades upon decades of collective experience amongst our brilliant team members. And still, yes it’s true, sometimes we long for a programming language like the one shown above. Nope. Not . . . Read more
Here’s an interesting one: Your server suddenly goes unresponsive, and your alerting service awakens the response team at 2am. Upon logging into the server, httpd appears to indeed be running, load is nil, mysqld is fine, but your website is still down. What’s up with that?! In the error log, . . . Read more
The MySQL slow query log can be very insightful for tracking down slow-running queries that are bogging down your webserver. But more often than not, it’s not enabled by default. So let’s learn how to enable and configure it, so you can start examining your slow running queries yourself! Ok, . . . Read more