Welcome everyone to a brand new series for 2014 of The JukeBox. The JukeBox is my personal look into some amazing songs that I have come across lately, whether it would be new or old.
Today, we are looking at the Number 1 song for osu! for 2013. It’s a cover from the Foo Fighters, it’s The Pretender from Infected Mushroom!
YouTube and Spotify embed beneath the lyrics!
At times you have technical difficulties and it takes time to get the problems resolved, but there is times where even simple things take more time than what it should be.
This particular website is about 18 months old and has been moved from shared hosting to a dedicated server since.
With running a site, technologies tend to get updated which can cause problems on the server.
In my case, I was running Ubuntu 13.04 with Apache2, PHP and MySQL… Everything was working perfectly. Couldn’t complain. Then I had to update Ubuntu to 13.10 because of end of life support for the product.
That is when the shit hit the fan. Apache broke. Not good. Could I get it working? Barely. After a while, I just gave in and switched to nginx. Everything was sorted. As time went on, things were getting slower and then….
Slowness when using SSH, sites kept crashing… Turned out to be php5-fpm (which is nginx’s PHP) that was maxing out the I/O on the CPU whenever anyone visited this site. Some plugin that I am using is using a lot of PHP (not sure which) processing and restarting it would only cure the problem for a few minutes.
I said “Right, I’m reinstalling the OS”. So yesterday (3rd), I started to backup the all the sites, databases and everything else and switched to Debian 7.
First impressions, a heck of a lot stable compared to Ubuntu and hasn’t crashed yet (Knock on wood). Sites are running smooth as butter and nothing to complain about.
I’m happy and also thankful to Pricetx for helping me throughout this process.
Written on the tablet using the WordPress app. Apologies for any mistakes.
A few days ago, I created a post comparing the Novemeber/December figures for the site.
Here is January’s Stats!
Again, it’s something. 😛
I thought I would give you all a update on stats collected by Google Analytics comparing November to December of 2013.
+14.1% Visitor Increase
+12.8% Unique Visitors
+42.9% Pageviews
Happy New Year everyone.
This is a quick post on what is happening with PFN (Padraig Fahy Network) and what is going to be happening with it.
We are having some slight changes. Over the next while, we will be saying a farewell to one site that I have tried to get up and running, Gamers and Geeks. It was a hard decision, but it is one that needed to be done in order to be “professional”.
My love for technology and gaming hasn’t gone away and that is why it will be replaced by “nologam”.
nologam (Technology, Gaming) is a peculiar, but interesting name, but the focus of it is, the community. The community creating the content. Not just from staff members, but from everyone.
We are also going to have sections to talk about hacking, cyrpto-currencies, modding (gaming) and a whole load more.
I am launching it sometime early 2014 and hopefully you are interested.
I have written a blog post about the workflow of nologam, and I would encourage you to please check it out and leave feedback on twitter @nologam or email hello@nologam.com with suggestions, improvements etc to our workflow!
There is a lot more that I could talk about, but I would just be rambling!
So, the other day a good friend of mine fucking retard that is a tranny (Reid at http://reidweb.com), set up a GitLab (Which is a self-hosted GitHub-esqe website) and the first thing that I said to him was.
I must learn Git
So, I spent about a couple of hours talking with him and linking to the git-scm website and before I knew it, I was pushing files from my Linux server over SSH to this Git website!
Once it “clicked” with me on what was the reasoning for using Git, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket etc was, I was so intrigured. The way that branches can be easily created and doing patches and what-have-ya. It was amazing.
I worked over the weekend with Pricetx (@Pricetx), on creating/modifying some Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Scripts and we were creating, editing, uploading all through Git and GitLab.
And with that said, I am now going to start using Git for simple version control stuff and hopefully something good with come out of it eventually. 😛
The next site that I am creating (nologam), is going to be hosted on our private GitLab for development purposes and hopefully we’ll get some awesome stuff going.
Invaluable tool to know no matter which part of the IT industry you are in 🙂