This how-to guide uses Subversion to download & install standalone WordPress blogs & their plugins, quickly and easily from your Linux command line interface, with simple updates thereafter. It also [...]

For the blog platform WordPress to work properly with Nginx we need to tweak the web server configuration. This tutorial will enable both caching - integrating the WP Super Cache plugin - and activate pretty [...]

Change repetitive db data with one single syntax command. Rather than manually find & alter each instance, isolate the lot & update multiple content. This is handy when you want to swap or lose an identical [...]

Welcome to the_guv's 20 part VPS how-to bible, complete with video tutorials. If you are outgrowing your shared host, are paying big bucks for a managed VPS or want to rightsize from an old dedicated plan, this [...]

This how-to guide maps out two pretty basic but handy MySQL operations, creating and binning a database, using the terminal interface. Sure, you can do those with, say, phpMyAdmin, but it's way quicker to perform [...]

This tutorial shows you how to configure FileZilla, the most popular Secure FTP (SFTP) client. Having set up the Nginx web server we're on the brink of setting up some sites or blogs, but first here's a handy [...]

This tutorial steps out how to create a Linux user and set permissions. It can be used as part of the VPS Bible 20-Part series, else as a standalone guide. Just thought I'd clear that up. Before carrying on [...]

This guide provides the syntax for uploading data to a MySQL database. For instance, you've changed Linux server, have added a blank database and now want to add your previously backed up data. Just replace the db [...]

This how-to guide maps out two pretty basic but handy MySQL operations, creating and binning a database, using the terminal interface. Sure, you can do those with, say, phpMyAdmin, but it's way quicker to perform [...]

This reference to the best Virtual Private Server and Linux online resources range from basic beginner guides to advanced web server configuration tutorials. Coupled with the the_guv's original VPS Bible series, now [...]

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]

Guvnr.com couldn't launch alone, that just wouldn't do, so I've knocked up a simple portal page for my namesake site, ollyconnelly.com. ...The purpose of this site is SEO; marketing. That is to say, when [...]

Hi.  My name's Olly Connelly.  Welcome to Guvnr. About Guvnr.com Guvnr launched in 2008 as a showcase for my Web, PC and Content services. [...]

The issue: Your website doesn't load properly after opting for a Click Pattern 'Site Overlay' on your Google Analytics Dashboard, instead rendering opaque. Links don't work, you can't see a way to disable the [...]

So I've relocated for a few months, to an Arab country that shall not be named. My website, on the other hand, still lives in Newark, New Jersey, before traveling about. And I have a dilemma. On arriving here, I [...]

Hi.  My name's Olly Connelly.  Welcome to Guvnr. About Guvnr.com Guvnr launched in 2008 as a showcase for my Web, PC and Content services. [...]

Let's take a quick look at our Nginx server and site error & access logs, and where to find them. You have one pair of Nginx logs server-wide and another for each site, unless you omitted them. The error logs [...]

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]

Like I said, I've had problems aplenty with my hosting provider Lunarpages * this last week - or was that two - who apparently aren't set up for traffic spikes and then lose databases. I've taken steps to ensure [...]

Sure, there has been a pause. A month, no less, and how weird is this: I feel like the kid at school who sidles into the classroom, totally late, hair strewn and face sheepish, having missed Assembly and, oh no, they [...]

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]

Guvnr.com couldn't launch alone, that just wouldn't do, so I've knocked up a simple portal page for my namesake site, ollyconnelly.com. ...The purpose of this site is SEO; marketing. That is to say, when [...]

Here's how to copy/backup/upload files between Linux & Windows hosts using PuTTY's Secure FTP terminal. Faster, easier and way safer than FTP. If you're using Linux locally as well as to power your web host, skip [...]

If I had a Big Mac for every favicon tutorial out there, I'd be dead. But hey, I needed a favicon, and I figured a video illustrating the process may come in handy for some folks, so here goes. What is a [...]

Hi.  My name's Olly Connelly.  Welcome to Guvnr. About Guvnr.com Guvnr launched in 2008 as a showcase for my Web, PC and Content services. [...]

Give your site a design lift with this simple CSS code snippet. Simply choose a radius and drop it in a div for a real easy way to add curves without any images or javascript. This is super-fast to do and works for [...]

They say things happen in three's, so to keep up with tradition I'm launching three sites this week. As well as Guvnr.com and a namesake portal, ollyconnelly.com, I've scrubbed up my old building services [...]

Here's how to copy/backup/upload files between Linux & Windows hosts using PuTTY's Secure FTP terminal. Faster, easier and way safer than FTP. If you're using Linux locally as well as to power your web host, skip [...]

The issue: Your website doesn't load properly after opting for a Click Pattern 'Site Overlay' on your Google Analytics Dashboard, instead rendering opaque. Links don't work, you can't see a way to disable the [...]

If I had a Big Mac for every favicon tutorial out there, I'd be dead. But hey, I needed a favicon, and I figured a video illustrating the process may come in handy for some folks, so here goes. What is a [...]