Managing your own web server not only means ensuring that your client's websites are being displayed. It also means that you need to make sure that your client's email is uninterrupted.

The tail Linux command is a very useful command for viewing logs. It is designed to show the end of a file on a screen. It can however be set to automatically set to always display the end of a file.

Console programs can be ugly. Fortunately, there is some built in characters that can produce table borders that can help liven things up a bit. (just a little)

So I discovered there is yet another minor flaw with Vesta CP. With the current release, phpMyAdmin does not work out of the box. Fortunately I found this: phpmyadmin-fixer

One of the things that I often forget as a website developer is that, as a freelancer who also offers hosting, I also have to worry about my client’s email service.

The problem is simple, I want to move my and my client's sites away from Dreamhost into an environment where I have more control over the server software running the sites.