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Disable default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates

The PHP constants below will disable the default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates. They should be added into your wp-config.php file.// Disable WordPress core update emails add_filter( ‘auto_core_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ ); // Disable WordPress plugin update emails add_filter(…

WordPress

Add a Swap Partition to a Ubuntu 22.04 instance

Below is a guide on how you can add a swap disk/partition to a Ubuntu 22.04 instance, I would recommend that you have a decent amount of hard disk space available to avoid constant use of the swap drive, a…

Hosting

MySQL/MariaDB [Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 32768 (request: 100000)

Seeing the warning recently on a number of VMs running MySQL/MariaDB.[Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 32768 (request: 100000)A MariaDB process has requested a larger amount of open files, you can verify the current limit by…

Database

Set monit to monitor mariadb on a RunCloud instance on Ubuntu 22 & 24

Get up and running with Monit on Ubuntu 22.04Install MonitSSH as root into your VM instance and install Monitapt updateapt install monitStart/stop/restart and see the status of monitsystemctl status monitsystemctl start monitsystemctl stop monitsystemctl restart monitStatus will tell if it’s…

Hosting

Using MySQL Tuner with MariaDB on Ubuntu 22.04

Leaving MariaDB settings out of the box may work for some people but not so productive for others, MariaDB can be a resource hog if not checked and result in issues like OOM-Killer(Out of memory) knocking it off.You can use…

When URLs are just not resolving the way you want, it may be time to clear or flush the DNS nameserver local cache – enter the relevant command in the Terminal/command line for the macOS operating system you are on.How…

macOS

Restart and view status of RunCloud services on the Command Line

Here are some command line commands to view the status as well as restart some key services such as OpenLiteSpeed, MariaDB, Redis and Memcached, after having SSH’ed in to your server as root.MySQL/MariaDBGet the status of MariaDBsystemctl status mariadbOutput will…

Hosting

Getting Browsersync running with Gulp 4 and Valet on macOS

Get Browsersync going with Gulp 4+ and Valet as a local development environment. With Gulp 4+ there has been some code upgrades that require any older gulp.js files to be updated, this guide looks at making Browsersync work with Gulp…