Re: (OT) WordPress Hosting

[David Schwartz]

I had a reseller (WHM/cPanel) account at HostGator for years, and moved 
everything over to a VPS last fall, including about a dozen WP sites. 

I had occasional issues at HG, but an endless stream of nightmares on the VPS.

What I discovered is that shared hosting providers put stuff in place to help 
screen out the majority of problems.

Running a VPS is pretty much like running your own dedicated server — the 
security stuff is 100% up to you!

After about 6 months of non-stop headaches caused by security holes in my WP 
sites, I moved everything back to a reseller account (WHM/cPanel) at Namecheap. 

It’s like night and day.

If you’re going to host it on your own server or a VPS, be prepared to run one 
or two security plugins, as well as tighten down your email to prevent hackers 
from accessing it via WP holes.

As an aside, the people who write the plugins, and especially the free ones, 
don’t really know how to deal with things like SQL Injection, XSS, and stuff 
like that. Anything that collects data via fields is subject to attack as well. 
And nobody tests for or reports on bugs that may exist in the stuff on 
Wordpress.org (or commercial stuff either, for that matter) — their main 
concern is basic operational bugs and compatibility with prior WP versions. 
Even the themes can be a source of attacks.

It’s not that I’m down on WP; rather, it’s that I’ve learned there’s actually 
some considerable value in hosting WP on even a cheap hosting account because 
of the security services the hosting provider will already have in place. (They 
do it, I imagine, just for their own sanity!)

-David Schwartz



> On May 18, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Mark Phillips  wrote:
> 
> My daughter has become a blogger of late 
> (https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=tzJbcg2o-2FNh3kfIF32sRUcyxC-2BXwLKW9l6yyRgbKufAf3tpKLsCBliU2uCnNdwKF_6lpMB7VLnN-2Fj9-2FEErg8-2F-2BMBpb5QxlByTgv2M3fbWD9ebvC-2BWrN3h7jImK8EVWYBe9IP9xY5P7HqumjsJl-2FQ7tGTLHke7Kyvs-2FsAh6-2B0g6RTPGx7MbSrsL0Ccnq6ymzJLNREeHVS-2FJYbOKgE5BTC9fuZM93DVmnHGePAiO8ZjhFO-2B1AqcnOXflYQvlbeJz0kHn-2FtE9Vb9eolWow9xfoII5U70TtgbbYwQntUAtO5lOzE-3D
>  
> 
>  guess a recently minted BS from ASU needs a summer hobby while she works and 
> saves up her money to start her MS in the Fall at ASU.
> 
> I was thinking of hosting her Wordpress blog on some spare space I have on a 
> Linode machine, saving me the cost of paying to host her site. Does anyone on 
> the list support Wordpress, and if so, any suggestions or gotchas about 
> hosting Wordpress?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
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Re: CentOS 7 install

[Todd Cole]

If I had more time I would record a VM build but if you have time Saturday
consider attending the Installfest and we could build it there with lots of
extra help and support. Todd


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:37 PM, koder  wrote:

> Centos 7 install partitioning.
>
> I am trying to install CentOS 7 on the second hard drive on my system
> I have tried installing with both hard drives plugged in, and just the
> second drive.
>
> I am installing from a USB drive that has the full 9 GB load on it.
> The installer keeps telling me I have incorrectly specified.
>
> I check that I want to set the partitions
> I click on the arrow that points to the 1000.01 GB partition on my
> secondary drive
>
> I tried setting / as the mount point.
> I also have tried sdb and sdb4 or sdb5
> I clicked on the + for add a partition, tried to add / as the mount point.
>
> I know that somehow I am to set up a swap partition, but have yet to get
> that as an option.
>
>
> I don't want to walk over either the Windows load, or the Mint load.
>
> This is a list of my drive partitions as presented by the Di9sk Utility:
>
> The first hard drive has a Windows 7 load, and CentOS 6
> The second drive has Mint 17
>
> This is the listings of my partitions
>
> 1.0 TB Primary drive
>41 Gb  Dell Utility
>26 GB Recovery
>83 GB NTFS
>
>Extended 891 GB
>   524 MB Centos 6
>   891 GB LVM 2
>
> 3.0 TB Secondary Drive
>215 GB Mint 17
>
>Extended 2.0 TB
>   1.1 TB ext4
>   537 GB ext4
>   374 GB ext4
>
>Free 802 GB
>
> The online tutorials pretty much seem to be designed for setting up CentOS
> on the whole system.
>
> I appreciate any guidance.
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Re: (OT) WordPress Hosting

[Sesso]

100% of my clients use Wordpress. Keep it updated, remove unused themes, and 
install wordfence. Your biggest security hole will always be the plugins 
because the code is usually written poorly. 

Jason



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> On May 18, 2016, at 8:20 PM, Stephen Partington  wrote:
> 
> I am not really a WordPress pro. But there are a number of potential gotchas 
> that create security holes. A big one is plugins. The other is leaving 
> certain settings at default values. Itheme security is a really nice security 
> check for you. And it gives you some options to secure your site. Another 
> option is to use a wordpress.com site and let them host it. They do have a 
> free solution.
> 
>> On May 18, 2016 6:18 PM, "Mark Phillips"  wrote:
>> My daughter has become a blogger of late 
>> (http://www.sustainablesixty.com/)...I guess a recently minted BS from ASU 
>> needs a summer hobby while she works and saves up her money to start her MS 
>> in the Fall at ASU.
>> 
>> I was thinking of hosting her Wordpress blog on some spare space I have on a 
>> Linode machine, saving me the cost of paying to host her site. Does anyone 
>> on the list support Wordpress, and if so, any suggestions or gotchas about 
>> hosting Wordpress?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
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Re: (OT) WordPress Hosting

[Stephen Partington]

I am not really a WordPress pro. But there are a number of potential
gotchas that create security holes. A big one is plugins. The other is
leaving certain settings at default values. Itheme security is a really
nice security check for you. And it gives you some options to secure your
site. Another option is to use a wordpress.com site and let them host it.
They do have a free solution.
On May 18, 2016 6:18 PM, "Mark Phillips"  wrote:

> My daughter has become a blogger of late (
> http://www.sustainablesixty.com/)...I guess a recently minted BS from ASU
> needs a summer hobby while she works and saves up her money to start her MS
> in the Fall at ASU.
>
> I was thinking of hosting her Wordpress blog on some spare space I have on
> a Linode machine, saving me the cost of paying to host her site. Does
> anyone on the list support Wordpress, and if so, any suggestions or gotchas
> about hosting Wordpress?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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(OT) WordPress Hosting

[Mark Phillips]

My daughter has become a blogger of late (
http://www.sustainablesixty.com/)...I guess a recently minted BS from ASU
needs a summer hobby while she works and saves up her money to start her MS
in the Fall at ASU.

I was thinking of hosting her Wordpress blog on some spare space I have on
a Linode machine, saving me the cost of paying to host her site. Does
anyone on the list support Wordpress, and if so, any suggestions or gotchas
about hosting Wordpress?

Thanks!

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Re: Firefox endless crashing ... thx for your suggestions ...

[Snyder, Alexander]

Can't hurt to take a look ...

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:34 PM,  wrote:

> Thanks Alex and Brien:
>
> I will try the rename suggestion.
>
> In .mozilla, I found 24882 pending crash reports dating
> back to March 2013, about 24000 of them from two days in
> April 2015.
>
> Surely there cannot be any good reason or benefit in
> cluttering up the system with all these ancient crash
> reports.  Is there any good reason not to delete all of
> that more than a year-old garbage?
>
> Joe
>
>
> 
> > ... an ongoing problem:
> > http://askubuntu.com/questions/254724/firefox-constantly-crashes-no-log
> >
> > They suggest: Make sure Firefox isn't running. Then rename ~/.mozilla
> > to something else and see if Firefox still crashes.
>
>
>
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Re: Firefox endless crashing ... thx for your suggestions ...

[joe]

Thanks Alex and Brien:

I will try the rename suggestion.

In .mozilla, I found 24882 pending crash reports dating
back to March 2013, about 24000 of them from two days in
April 2015.

Surely there cannot be any good reason or benefit in
cluttering up the system with all these ancient crash
reports.  Is there any good reason not to delete all of
that more than a year-old garbage?

Joe



> ... an ongoing problem:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/254724/firefox-constantly-crashes-no-log
>
> They suggest: Make sure Firefox isn't running. Then rename ~/.mozilla
> to something else and see if Firefox still crashes.




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CentOS 7 install

[koder]

Centos 7 install partitioning.

I am trying to install CentOS 7 on the second hard drive on my system
I have tried installing with both hard drives plugged in, and just the 
second drive.


I am installing from a USB drive that has the full 9 GB load on it.
The installer keeps telling me I have incorrectly specified.

I check that I want to set the partitions
I click on the arrow that points to the 1000.01 GB partition on my 
secondary drive


I tried setting / as the mount point.
I also have tried sdb and sdb4 or sdb5
I clicked on the + for add a partition, tried to add / as the mount point.

I know that somehow I am to set up a swap partition, but have yet to get 
that as an option.



I don't want to walk over either the Windows load, or the Mint load.

This is a list of my drive partitions as presented by the Di9sk Utility:

The first hard drive has a Windows 7 load, and CentOS 6
The second drive has Mint 17

This is the listings of my partitions

1.0 TB Primary drive
   41 Gb  Dell Utility
   26 GB Recovery
   83 GB NTFS

   Extended 891 GB
  524 MB Centos 6
  891 GB LVM 2

3.0 TB Secondary Drive
   215 GB Mint 17

   Extended 2.0 TB
  1.1 TB ext4
  537 GB ext4
  374 GB ext4

   Free 802 GB

The online tutorials pretty much seem to be designed for setting up 
CentOS on the whole system.


I appreciate any guidance.

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Re: Firefox endless crashing ...

[joe]

Brien wrote:

> Try clicking the help ? Button then troubleshooting information.
> Then try the refresh Firefox button.

I did try that, and the system crashes when I hit the help button.




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Re: OT - starting a project

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 17 May 2016 16:38:06 -0700
David Schwartz  wrote:

> Hey, guys, I have a very general question
> 
> There’s an idea I’ve had for quite a while, and was chatting with
> someone recently who suggested I set up an open-source kind of
> project for it.
> 
> The problem is, I don’t really want to do the programming on it. I
> want to be the architect and direct some other developers. 
> 
> So what’s the best way to find a couple of people who’d like to work
> on an app part-time?
> 
> Honetsly, I don’t care what it’s implemented in initially; a browser
> app is fine, but it needs to read and write to a file system (local
> and/or cloud-based).
> 
> Right now I’m just looking to build a proof-of-concept model and
> extend it one step at a time.
> 
> The main architecture is an interactive graphical editor roughly
> similar to Visio, but then it goes off into some interesting
> directoins.
> 
> Any ideas?

Hi David,

My first suggestion would be to read Eric Raymond's (ESR's) "The
Cathedral and the Bazaar". To this day I think he hit it right on the
head. Somewhere I have the print book, but there's also an unauthorized
PDF here:

http://www.unterstein.net/su/docs/CathBaz.pdf

The reason I think you need to rethink your not wanting to do the
coding is the following ESR advice:

=
When you start community-building, what you need to be able
to present is a plausible promise. Your program doesn’t have to work
particularly well. It can be crude, buggy, incomplete, and poorly
documented. What it must not fail to do is (a) run, and (b) convince
potential co-developers that it can be evolved into something really
neat in the foreseeable future.
=

In other words, cobble together a rickety prototype, write a manifesto
of the program with its priorities and its future, and put it out
there, and announce the heck out of it.

I suggest you also read the following:

http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200310/200310.htm

The preceding link is the early story of VimOutliner, an outline
processor that I originated. If you saw version 0.1.3, the first
version, you'd laugh til your ribs crack. I cobbled it together with a
combination of Vim, ex scripts, and Perl scripts. It was hardly
recognizable as an outline processor.

But, as ESR demanded, it ran, and an outline loving person could use it
to author outlines very rapidly. So the project acquired programmers
far more skilled than I, and quickly became something much more useful
than I could have ever put out.

But if I'd tried to get those guys to code the prototype, it never
would have happened.

SteveT

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Re: Firefox endless crashing ...

[Snyder, Alexander]

Joe --

I know that Mint is built on Ubuntu.  This post seems to suggest its been
an ongoing problem:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/254724/firefox-constantly-crashes-no-log

They suggest: Make sure Firefox isn't running. Then rename ~/.mozilla to
something else and see if Firefox still crashes.

I would suggest searching for the FF error logs.  This post tries to shine
some light on their location:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/179930/where-can-i-find-firefox-log-file

I would spin up a VM and see if you can duplicate the issue in a Vanilla
version of your OS ... straight outta the box, does it happen?

Try to reign in the scope of the issue with VM troubleshooting.

Let me know if that helps at all! :D

-Alex.





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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:48 AM,  wrote:

> On Linux Mint 17 Firefox 46 is crashing in numerous
> situations, including even when I try to run in safe mode,
> it just crashes. Everything else on my system is working
> fine and the system is up to date.
>
> I have tried reinstalling Firefox; even tried complete
> uninstall and fresh install.  But the problem continues t
> the same.
>
> Cannot open either extensions or add-ons because Firefox
> instantly crashes.
>
> Tried opening a private window and then I could get to
> extensions and add-ons, so I disabled them all, but
> when I restart Firefox, it crashes again.
>
> Help!
>
>
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Re: Firefox endless crashing ...

[Brien Dieterle]

Try clicking the help ? Button then troubleshooting information.  Then try
the refresh Firefox button.

If that doesn't help you could rename the hidden Firefox folder in you home
directory.  Might be .mozilla

Maybe you could create a new user and see if that user has issues, then you
know it is your profile or not.
On May 18, 2016 11:48 AM,  wrote:

> On Linux Mint 17 Firefox 46 is crashing in numerous
> situations, including even when I try to run in safe mode,
> it just crashes. Everything else on my system is working
> fine and the system is up to date.
>
> I have tried reinstalling Firefox; even tried complete
> uninstall and fresh install.  But the problem continues t
> the same.
>
> Cannot open either extensions or add-ons because Firefox
> instantly crashes.
>
> Tried opening a private window and then I could get to
> extensions and add-ons, so I disabled them all, but
> when I restart Firefox, it crashes again.
>
> Help!
>
>
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Re: Phoenix Linux Project

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 17 May 2016 21:51:20 -0700
trent shipley  wrote:


> *Associate and Bachelor's and entry level developers do most of the
> coding to interfaces and with mentoring.  Also, documented experience
> for would be UX designers and technical writers at this level.

The words "Associate" and "Bachelor's" connote college degrees. If they
weren't about college degrees, I'd advise changing them. If they are
about college degrees, I would contend that screening by education has
no place and no value in volunteer free software projects. I think
every one of us has met high school dropouts who could do extraordinary
technical work.

SteveT

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Firefox endless crashing ...

[joe]

On Linux Mint 17 Firefox 46 is crashing in numerous
situations, including even when I try to run in safe mode,
it just crashes. Everything else on my system is working
fine and the system is up to date.

I have tried reinstalling Firefox; even tried complete
uninstall and fresh install.  But the problem continues t
the same.

Cannot open either extensions or add-ons because Firefox
instantly crashes.

Tried opening a private window and then I could get to
extensions and add-ons, so I disabled them all, but
when I restart Firefox, it crashes again.

Help!



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Re: OT - starting a project

[Kevin Fries]

You are asking for chaos!

My recommendation would be this...

Get a project going on PlanBox.  This will act as your central control and
management piece.

Get a GIT repo started at Github to allow those that come on to clone the
basics.

Pick a language or platform.  Hold fast to this choice.  Be it Ruby (with
or without Rails), Python, Node, or whatever, you need a common core to
build around.

At you git repo, create your README.MD file which has the beginnings of
what you are looking for.  No need to get to verbose, but enough to say
what the project is about, and to get people's interest.

Then look for people to join your quest.

Kevin
On May 17, 2016 5:56 PM, "David Schwartz" 
wrote:

Hey, guys, I have a very general question

There’s an idea I’ve had for quite a while, and was chatting with someone
recently who suggested I set up an open-source kind of project for it.

The problem is, I don’t really want to do the programming on it. I want to
be the architect and direct some other developers.

So what’s the best way to find a couple of people who’d like to work on an
app part-time?

Honetsly, I don’t care what it’s implemented in initially; a browser app is
fine, but it needs to read and write to a file system (local and/or
cloud-based).

Right now I’m just looking to build a proof-of-concept model and extend it
one step at a time.

The main architecture is an interactive graphical editor roughly similar to
Visio, but then it goes off into some interesting directoins.

Any ideas?

-David Schwartz

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Re: OT - starting a project

[Thomas Cameron]

Have you looked at e.g. Eclipse as an IDE? It has a zillion plugins,
might work for the editing you need.

On 05/17/2016 11:37 PM, David Schwartz wrote:
> Well, the graphical editor is really a facade needed to do further work.
> I’m not aware of any that have the features I need to proceed, so the
> first task is to adapt or build an editor that does what I need. Then
> proceed from there.
> 
> I’m after something that gets into graphical software design. That is,
> GUI-based software design. Nothing like I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a
> bunch of stuff.
> 
> I have some ideas that I’d like to see fleshed-out that could result in
> some interesting snapshot projects along the way.
> 
> Maybe it’s something a couple of college students who need a summer
> project could help with?
> 
> (I hesitate to say “interns”, but … whatever works. Except I can’t pay
> them anything.)
> 
> -David Schwartz
> 
> On May 17, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Thomas Cameron
>  wrote:
> 
> On 05/17/2016 06:38 PM, David Schwartz wrote:
> 
> Hey, guys, I have a very general question
> 
> There’s an idea I’ve had for quite a while, and was chatting
> with someone recently who suggested I set up an open-source kind
> of project for it.
> 
> The problem is, I don’t really want to do the programming on it.
> I want to be the architect and direct some other developers.
> 
> So what’s the best way to find a couple of people who’d like to
> work on an app part-time?
> 
> Honetsly, I don’t care what it’s implemented in initially; a
> browser app is fine, but it needs to read and write to a file
> system (local and/or cloud-based).
> 
> Right now I’m just looking to build a proof-of-concept model and
> extend it one step at a time.
> 
> The main architecture is an interactive graphical editor roughly
> similar to Visio, but then it goes off into some interesting
> directoins.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I've actually toyed with an idea like this for a while. I have an
> idea for a project, but my problem is that I am not qualified to
> code it. I'm just not a very good programmer at all, much more a
> sysadmin type.
> 
> The only way I can really think to get something like this going is
> to maybe pay for the first version of development, like a cheap
> offshore developer in Russia or India, then make it open source. If
> it's a good idea, if there's enough interest in it, if there's
> enough value in it, you'll attract contributors. It's a heck of a
> lot easier for folks to look at what you've got and tell you how to
> make it better than to start with a clean sheet of paper. See
> https://medium.com/@ienjoy/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d#.5b83cmmoh
> 
> 
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
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Re: Phoenix Linux Project

[trent shipley]

https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorAction.action

Customer's problem.
* All the post offices in the Phoenix area have a backlog of weeks for
passport applications in the Summer.
* All appointments are made by telephone. A web interface is not available.
* The various post offices do not have an integrated appointment backend.
* Customer data is subject to the 1974 Privacy Act.

Suggestion.
*Build an enterprise grade, web front end, business logic, and data bases
(GIS, acceptance facility [post office], customer, and calendar) to support
passport appointment in Maricopa and Pinal counties.
*Also may need phone room and telephone appointment interfaces.


Pros.
*Enterprise size problem with room for expansion (eg. California) will
chalenge contributors at all levels.
*Affordable secure appointment systems are widely needed, and should be
commodity grade software. (FOSS appointment software exists for medical
practices and may be a reasonable starting point.)
*Solves passport consumer customer service problem.
*Matches consumer demand to appointment availability in geographic area.
*Government qualifies as a charity.

Cons.
*Largely transactional, so a poor fit for big data project (Hadoop).
*Not a novel project. (There is other FOSS appointment software).
*The government is not a particularly charitable charity.
*Neither the US Postal Service nor the US Department of State have actually
agreed to work on the project.
*To actually see real customer data (say alpha phase), the participant
would need a security clearance, as would the development ecology.


Trent.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:51 PM trent shipley 
wrote:

> I'd like to hear some 250 word pitches for open source projects that the
> Maricopa-Pinal counties Linux developer community could work on.  Maybe the
> Phoenix Linux Project would merit 501c3 status.
>
> Desirables:
>
> Customer:
>
> *Primary (initial) customer: non-political, non-religious charity or
> government agency.
> *Wide enough in application that many customers can find a use for the
> product.
>
>
> Wide range of talent and experience:
>
> *Associate and Bachelor's and entry level developers do most of the coding
> to interfaces and with mentoring.  Also, documented experience for would be
> UX designers and technical writers at this level.
>
> *Master's, junior, and intermediate level programmers provide
> architecture, mentoring, and difficult programming.
>
> *Senior volunteers provide overall architecture, general direction, etc.
>
> *Juniors should have contribution documented so that it contributes to the
> juniors' marketability.
>
>
> Designs should be applicable to jobs in industry:
>
> *Secure
> *Scale from desktop to enterprise/intranet to internet
> *Modular
> *Use current design standards (for example, REST)
> *Microservices
>
> Technologies:
>
> *Technologies should be focused on what is currently in demand by in
> demand by industry (fostering marketable skills.)
> *Marketable programming language (I'm partial to Java).
> *If at all possible use big data tool, notably Hadoop.
> *Internet programming tools (Spring)
> *git
> *et cetera
>
>
>
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