WordPress Plugin Crashed Your Site: Restore From Backup Instead You updated a plugin five minutes ago. Maybe it was a security patch. Maybe you were trying a new caching layer. You clicked “Update Now,” saw the progress bar fill, got the green tick, and moved on with your day. Now the site is down. Not […]
Read more →The script below monitors LDAP operations on a Domain Controller and logs detailed information about queries that exceed specified thresholds for execution time, CPU usage, or results returned. It helps identify problematic LDAP queries that may be impacting domain controller performance. Parameter: ThresholdSeconds Minimum query duration in seconds to log (default: 5) Parameter: LogPath Path […]
Read more →When you deploy applications behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in AWS, you usually expect perfect traffic distribution, fast, fair, and stateless.But what if your backend holds stateful sessions, like in-memory login sessions, caching, or WebSocket connections and you need a given client to keep hitting the same target every time? That’s where NLB sticky […]
Read more →If you’re like me, the idea of doing anything twice will make you break out in a cold shiver. For my Claude desktop, I often need network pcap (packet capture) to unpack something that I am doing. So the script below installs wireshark, and then the wireshark mcp and then configures Claude to use it. […]
Read more →A SYN flood test using hping3 that allows you to specify the number of SYN packets to send and scales horizontally with a specific number of processes can be created using a Bash script with the xargs command. This approach allows you to distribute the workload across multiple processes for better performance. The Script This […]
Read more →I find this script useful for debugging which processes are talking to which remote port. Example Usuage:
Read more →If you want to quickly health check your website, then the following script is a simple NMAP script that scans your site for common issues and formats the results in a nice report style. Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to fix each type of directory permission issue that the above script might find (for […]
Read more →Below is a useful script when you want to see which processes are using a specific port.
Read more →If you have tier 1 services that are dependant on a few DNS records, then you may want a simple batch job to monitor these dns records for changes or deletion. The script below contains an example list of DNS entries (replace these records for the ones you want to monitor).
Read more →This was a hard article to figure out the title for! Put simply, your mac book has a route table and if you want to move a specific IP address or dns from one interface to another, then follow the steps below: First find the IP address of the website that you want to re-route […]
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