The Ji Village News

Category: Web

  • Setting up ownCloud

    I’ve spent some of my spare time lately researching on ways to have better control of my calendar, contacts, important files that I sync to different places, and such. My objective is to move those things away from big cloud providers like Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, Skype, and so on. I am happy to report that…

  • Fixing WordPress comment email notification problem by installing sendmail on Debian

    In the past, whenever a reader commented on a blog entry, I would receive an email notification. Ever since I moved this site to a Linode VM, I noticed the comment email notification stopped working. Alas, blogs are not like what they used to be back in the day, now that so many people have…

  • Web hosting with DNSimple and Linode

    After about 8 years of hosting this site with Midphase, I’ve migrated my hosting service to Linode. I am using Debian 7 as my operating system. The web server is Tengine, a fork of Nginx. (Update: I am currently using Apache.) I have root access, therefore total control of this Linode VM. And I am…

  • Setting up WordPress on Debian/Ubuntu running Tengine web server

    I will change my host provider within a month. I’ve been using Midphase for several years and have decided to use Linode as my next virtual private service provider. I will move this site there in the next few weeks. This will be my first time moving a domain and I hope the transfer will…

  • Thinking of changing hosting company

    I purchased shared hosting service from Midphase years ago and that is where this site is hosted. It is up for renewal before 10/11. Every year during this time, for the last 2 or 3 years, I toyed with the idea of switching to a different hosting company, because the inflexibility of not having root…