DevOps | Making Things Work

Move a Google Cloud Project From A Personal Account to an Organisation

Migrate a google cloud platform project from a personal account to an organisation

Expose Real IP Addresses in Cloudflare & Nginx

How to expose a users real IP address in Nginx logs when using Cloudflare. By default everything routed through Cloudflare shows up in your logs as a Cloudflare server IP.

tools

Using WinSCP to Automate SFTP Transfers

After using FlashFXP for years I switched to WinSCP as it's simple to add to batch scripts and automate FTP transfers.

magento

Debian Server Setup & Magento 2 Installation

How to setup a Debian server on GCP and then install and configure Nginx and PHP to run Magento.

git

Create a Git Submodule Inside an Existing Directory

How to create a git submodule inside an existing directory. In short, cheat and move the files in and out of the folder.

magento

Building a Magento Cluster

Building a Magento cluster with seperate admin server on GCP using SQL, Filestore and Redis.

dev ops

How to Load Test a Website With Locust

How to load test a website using the Locust python tool. I wanted to find out what a google cloud instance running LEMP could handle.

cloudflare

Why I Use Cloudflare For DNS, Firewall & More

I first started using Cloudflare when I was sick of being up and nights and weekends fending off scrapers and bots from a large e-commerce site.

google

Which Google Cloud Platform Instance For a Small LEMP Stack

I choose and configure a Google Cloud Platform e2-small instance to run a Debian web server with Nginx, PHP and MariaDB.

hosting

Self Hosting a Blog - BookStack vs Hugo vs Ghost

I tried out BookStack, Hugo and Ghost to find out which one I wanted to use for my blog. I ended up keeping BookStack for personal docs and you are reading this on Ghost.

dev ops

My Web Development Workflow Setup

My sweet web dev setup with Windows 11 and WSL2, giving me Debian at my fingertips from the windows taskbar.

dev ops

Build A Digital Marketing Toolbox

Equip your team with the tools that help you achieve real eCommerce growth. These are all tools that I use daily and recommend to clients, and will scale up from free or nearly free plans.

dev ops

Useful Commands

A place for me to keep useful linux commands.

I've always enjoyed making servers and computer systems work for me, from my early days installing Slackware and web servers as a teenager through to ERP integrations in my thirties.

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