Just another blog A brain dump of Trozz

Using Wordpress as a Static Site Many people prefer to use Wordpress over platforms such as Hugo, Ghost et al. many of these situations don’t need a blogging platform but instead choose Wordpress due to the array of plugins and ease of management, however this obviously have a overhead compared to a static site. Why use it There can be many reasons that someone decides to use Wordpress over a flat file content management system (CMS) or even just a normal static site, some advantages and disadvantages are listed below Read more

CentOS / RedHat remove unused kernel versions I notice many servers tend to have many kernels, alot of the time people do not clean these up, this can obviously lead to /boot becoming full, there are a few ways that the unused kernels can be removed, Remember you should be running the latest kernel when possible The suggested method would be to use package-cleanup which is part of the yum-utils package. yum install yum-utils Once yum-utils is installed you can clean the unused kernels with the following command Read more

Automating Hugo Deployments As you may notice I have done a few updates today, I have always had the strong believe that if a task is repeated more than once that it should be automated, now deploying something like Hugo can be very easy as if you simply commit the public folder then this folder can be deployed, personally I do not commit this folder and infact exclude it via my .gitignore, this is a habit due to the fact that I believe in reproducible builds, yes even for something as simple as Hugo. Read more

fail2ban cloud loadbalancers Cloud Load Balancers (LBaaS) can be used for numerous reasons, the most commonly that is for distrobuting traffic between multiple servers instead of using HAProxy or a dedicated Load Balancer, there are possitives and negatives to this however in my view load balancing as a service is a fantastic service, with some draw backs which I am sure I will detail in future posts. Anywho on to the actural reason you are reading this Read more