The attack is going on
UPDATE 1: The DoS attack is going on. I will report it every day here. Until 2025/4/9 11:09 PM, 47,085,003 bad requests from China in the past few days. UPDATE 2: April 10, 2025, the spammer stopped attacking for a...
Category: Web & Network
One record of Layer 7 DoS Attact
Today, I received an email from a website monitoring service. It said my site was down. 1) The very first step is to try the website. The browser can not open it. 2) I sign in to the PVE, and...
Benchmarks Ubuntu 22.04 vs Ubuntu 24.04
Here is my Contabo VPS. I upgraded it from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04. So, let us see the difference before and after. In the Ubuntu 22.04
DigitalOcean VPS choice
Here is my new comparison of DigitalOcean VPS. Shared CPU Basic plan. I can choose from Regular CPU to Premium Intel CPU. I have a Five-year-old Regular CPU the smallest plan, $6 monthly. Then I created a new VPS, Premium...
Got Telus PureFibre Internet installation
The day before yesterday, the Telus technician came to my home, a townhouse. He installed the PureFibre Internet connection. In the utility room in a separate building, he installed a converter, a Fibre cable plugged into it, and an RJ11...
Performance compared between PHP8.2.28 and PHP8.3.13
I just upgraded one Ubuntu server from 22.04 to 24.04. Then I did a php engine upgrade from 8.2.28 to 8.3.13. Both php are in php-fpm mode. Opcache JIT enabled. Here are some php performance benchmark tests on the server....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...