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on Apr. 29, 2016
It has been more than a year since I opened a GitHub issue on the composer repository to propose an outdated command. It took a while, but we finally got what we asked! Vincent "Vinkla" Klaiber wrote a great blog post about how to use the new command with all available flags, go check it out: https…
Written by jenssegers.be
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on Apr. 29, 2016
It has been more than a year since I opened a GitHub issue on the composer repository to propose an outdated command. It took a while, but we finally got what we asked! Vincent "Vinkla" Klaiber wrote a great blog post about how to use the new command with all available flags, go check it out: https…
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on Apr. 24, 2016
Fail2ban is a must-have for every SSH-enabled server that is connected to the internet. It protects services such as SSH from illegitimate access. The first thing I do on every server is set up the firewall so that all ports except for the SSH port are blocked from incoming requests. But with the…
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on Mar. 20, 2016
Time to stop using the find command to search for large directories or files on your servers. There's a neat disk usage analyser tool called ncdu that you should definitely give a try! Install ncdu using apt-get on Debian or Ubuntu: apt-get install ncdu To search for large directories or files star…
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on Feb. 28, 2016
After Mandrill changed their pricing model, I (as well as many others) started exploring different transactional email services. Laravel only supports a couple providers out of the box, but what about the others? All Laravel mail drivers are managed by a core TransportManager, but it was a pain in…
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on Jan. 30, 2016
Installing both PHP 5 and PHP 7 next to each other seems to be fairly simple. In this blog post, I will be showing you how you can free up some resources while you're transitioning to PHP 7. Here's what I did. On this Debian web server, I installed php7.0-fpm from the Dotdeb repository without remo…