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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 This one is only here for historical reference.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

CentOS 7 Post-Installation Best Practices

If you haven’t done so yet, complete the tasks explained in Using SSH Key Pairs on Windows. If you fail to do so, you’ll be locked out of your CentOS…

noobient 2018-08-15No Comments

Outlook 2019 supports Outlook.com 2FA

Finally, the day has come, folks. I still can't believe it. After so many friggin' years this damn application finally supports two-factor authentication for their own service. Without stupid "app…

noobient 2018-08-15No Comments

Using SSH Key Pairs on Windows

Basics For the fundamentals of how SSH key pairs works, please read understanding public key private key concepts. TLDR you put your public key on the remote machine (server) you…

noobient 2018-08-15No Comments