We recently moved a hosting to a new data center and wanted to test speeds, so I needed fixed size files to see what kind of speeds people could achieve while downloading them. I decided on the arbitrary numbers of 100MB and 500MB. Heres how I generated fixes size files via bash. for 500 MB…
PHP PDO MySQL Needed to make a simple php script with mysql in it, so I decided to use PDO because… well peer pressure 😐 so heres a basic PHP PDO MYsql script. The idea is I have a table called table with a field called field in a database called somedatabase. We have 1000…
Secure Copy (SCP) provides a secure and authenticated method for copying files between hosts. SCP relies on Secure Shell (SSH). Copy the file “somefile.txt” from a remote host to the local host scp [email protected]:somefile.txt /some/local/directory Copy the file “somefile.txt” from the local host to a remote host scp somefile.txt [email protected]:/some/remote/directory Copy the directory “somedir” from…
Screen is a tool that allows users to resume a session after they have disconnected. Screen prevents a session from “timing out” or disconnecting SSH connections or local terminal emulators. A single Screen session has the ability to host multiple sessions or “windows.” I just spun up a new ubuntu 12.04 VPS and installed some…
mysql -u root -p This command is run in Shell / Bash and for security purposes I prefer never to provide the mysql password in command line and just giving it -p makes the mysql CLI prompt you for the password when you hit enter. CREATE DATABASE test; Typed from within the mysql…
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