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Self hosted Git service with Gogs

I’ve been searching for a solution for private repositories that would not assume paying Github. It was not the money that represented an issue, but actually the security as I wanted it to be more internal and private, while Github was after all subject to a password reuse attack, because if they know it’s public

Bulk downloads using wget

I recently had to download a lot of ZIP files (14848)  that were in a txt file and which although they had the same directory path couldn’t have been downloaded using recursive wget because the server had the directory indexes disabled and trying to pull with recursive wget resulted in a 403 forbidden error. So I

Do you worry about spam?

No? Well you should! Let’s talk a little bit about the most common website spam issues and how to actually prevent or resolve them. Every once in a while I get work order requests from customers on a shared hosting environment that all of a sudden are exceeding their resource usage allowance and this either

Install Froxlor on Debian Jessie

I’ve been dealing with this as I wanted to test out Froxlor as a control panel after going through VestaCP and Sentora so I wanted to share my experience and help out with additional indications given the fact that the official documentation is outdated and partially incorrect. So first things first. Install Debian Jessie using