September 2015 archive

Backup Server Configurations to Git

When you have multiple servers it pain to remember every configuration and it may take hours to configure servers again incase you need. It is also impractical to copy each files. There are few tools available but they come with overhead attached moreover its fun to write custom solutions 🙂 1. Create directory 2. cd …

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Cloning Server to New Hardware

You can find many ways of cloning old server to new hardware, create diskimage and move to new hardware and if you have identical hardware use `dd` or similar tool to copy disks block by block, but if you have new hardware and want to move server without downtime and with no configuration change there …

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Adding ellipsis to long text

When you have some long division and you don’t want to wrap text or extend size of div, But instead you want to use add few `…` at end of text using CSS .wrapped{ overflow:hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; width: 300px; } Example : Text without text-overflow :Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. …

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Monitoring Website for Downtime

Sometimes our in house server go down, But at production level we cannot take risk of 1min downtime, so we were supposed to monitor our server for downtime. Although there are many cheap services available but i decided to do it my own way, I can use this script in my RPI to monitor even …

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