27Aug
filezilla plus dropbox

Syncing FileZilla SiteManager via Dropbox

There’s a great chance that you, just like me, are working from multiple devices regularly. Although not optimal, sometimes you have to edit files over ftp/sftp – especially when working with web servers – or to sync files back and forth. Therefore, you need to have saved sessions with you at all times.

FileZilla is a very popular cross-platform tool used to manage FTP sessions. While it offers a session management feature called Site Manager, I have to point out before going any further:

Site Manager does not store your session passwords in an encrypted format! The developer seems to be convinced that you just shouldn’t leave your PC open, and if you’re hacked then.. oh well.

That being said, here’s how you can sync your Site Manager information between your devices. Read More »

26Aug
longview_mysql_stats

How To Enable Longview Metrics for MySQL in Linode Servers

Linode is a very popular Virtual Private Servers (VPS) provider, that offer simplified interfaces to create and manage your servers. This post discusses one of their features: Longview, and how you can utilize it if you’re running MySQL Databases on your VPS.

Longview allows you to collect many metrics on your server in good details. It is also a free service that you get with your subscription – although you can upgrade it for unlimited data retention and more granular metric data. Using Longview, you can monitor stuff like CPU, Memory, Network Utilization and other resources. What we want to do is utilize it to display metrics of our MySQL Database.

The added value of this is that using Longview, you will be able to Read More »

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