August 2018 Archives

Microsoft Teams Meeting Email Invitation Logo URL bugged

So guess what, after you carefully set your Logo URL in the Teams Admin site, your meeting invitation looks like this: Here's a hint, Microsoft: you're supposed to render that.…

noobient 2018-08-24No Comments

Migrating from Tumblr to WordPress on VPS

Preface I've had enough with Tumblr. It's been randomly messing up with <, >, & characters in the Markdown editor. And by that I mean it removed a random subset…

noobient 2018-08-21No Comments

Installing Nginx on CentOS 7 with Let’s Encrypt HTTPS certificates

First off, you need a CentOS instance. If you want to go the VPS route, I recommend Vultr. If you don't have an account yet, I'd really appreciate if you…

noobient 2018-08-21No Comments

Free Wildcard Certificates using Cloudflare, Let’s Encrypt and acme.sh

Preface I already covered Azure DNS, it's time to cover Cloudflare, too. If you haven't done so yet, sign up to Cloudflare (it's free), and move your domain name to…

noobient 2018-08-21No Comments

MariaDB fails to start after snapshot restore on Vultr

I had to restore from snapshot, because JetPack messed up my WordPress installation. Unfortunately, after the restore my website looked like this: Error establishing a database connection Gee, that's nice.…

noobient 2018-08-19No Comments

Dedicated Killing Floor 2 Server on Linux v2

BIG FAT WARNING This tutorial is deprecated. Please use the revised guide. This one is only here for historical reference. Prelude This article will guide you through setting up a…

noobient 2018-08-15No Comments

CentOS 7 done right on Vultr

Preamble After doing this for Linode, it’s time to also do Vultr. If you follow me, you already know that Vultr is one of my 3 favorite VPS providers. The…

noobient 2018-08-15No Comments