Author: sroot

  • Blog traffic

    According to cloudflare, my blog traffic this month. According to google analytics, my blog traffic this month. The difference? a) Cloudflare is counting requests to my server (each image, each file, each style sheet) whereas Google Analytics is joining requests from the same visitor into a session. b) Hackers don’t always ask for a page,…

  • Upgrading my server to PHP7 broke wordpress admin interface (cloudflare)

    wp-cli, a command line interface for WordPress, just saved me a big headache. It all began when I updated my server to the latest ubuntu LTS. That removed PHP5 support and replaced it with PHP7. That meant several of my sites stopped working as the nginx configuration had to change. With that done I thought…

  • Spam from Scottish Power, their response: we’ll carry on spamming (just not to you).

    Spam annoys me. More specifically, the effect of spam annoys me. It annoys me that from time to time I find emails I really need have been filtered to a spam folder. It annoys me that from time to time customers don’t receive emails from us because our email is filtered to their spam folder.…