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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

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April 19, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

I am a busy guy. Answering comments takes precious time from my daily life so don’t get mad if I don’t reply you back quickly or if I just don’t do. Plus, think twice before posting. If you really have something interesting to say, just go ahead. If that is something you really think I’d […]

How to install AWStats on FreeBSD 13.0

September 12, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

AWStats is a very powerful and useful software allowing webmasters count the visits to their managed websites. The tool is basically coded in Perl and it was a very popular choice before Google made it way easy when they launched their Google Analytics tool. However, nowadays not everyone is using Google Analytics services and even […]

How to install Matomo 4 on FreeBSD

May 2, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

Why would anyone need to install Matomo 4 on FreeBSD? Because you’re the admin of a website, or a few of them, and you want/need to count the visitors, how long do the stay looking at the content and some other fancy stuff. This is what Matomo does. But it also does this without you […]

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – April 2020

April 17, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

For the first time here at adminbyaccident.com I will share some information about Windows patching that I hope can shed some light and help people on deciding what to patch and how quickly to patch. Digesting Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday releases is always tricky. The amount of information is overwhelming and since almost every company on […]

Monitoring Systems (One)

January 8, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

Monitoring systems or how to get lost in fierce madness. There are many solutions to monitor systems and most of them have some kind of web interface to operate. Choosing the right tool for any job is a tedious task and for a newbie like me it is a bit harder, specially for a sensitive […]

How to set time and date in FreeBSD

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

In a FreeBSD system one may need to adjust date and time, specially if one has opened a VPS instance in some hosting provider. The system already provides a list of time zones. Just look around in the /usr/share/zoneinfo folder and subfolders to find the one that fits your needs. Just remember this will have […]

How to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown on a Lenovo T430s laptop with Ubuntu

September 1, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

As recently announced in a previous article I wanted to write a couple of guides on how to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in GNU/Linux and UNIX environments. It is always a good and I hope a standard practice to have your systems patched and if they aren’t for whatever the reason (that legacy thing […]

How to install WPScan on FreeBSD

March 22, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Vulnerability scanners are useful tools to find issues on systems, networks and the like. WPScan is dedicated to find vulnerabilities on WordPress installations. A short tutorial as an introduction to the tool has been published here. So if you are interested on the tool and on FreeBSD, let’s dig on this how to install WPScan […]

How to enable log rotation on FreeBSD

May 5, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

This is a very short simple entry but it may help you. As many others you may be running a web server, or any other service that creates some logging information. Enable log rotation on FreeBSD will keep those log files in a manageable size (at least more readable) and they won’t grow and expand […]

How to analyze suspicious email

May 20, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

Millions of emails are sent and received every day. Most of them are just junk. And many among those are potentially harmful. Phishing still is one of the most effective ways for malicious actors to penetrate into well secured networks. The weakest link, too often, is the human factor. Training can help mitigate this 24×7 […]

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