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Web development

I have the world’s fastest website, and It’s probably slow for you

A few days ago, I was checking up on the performance of my site, mafiaenshevn.com, and I was considering fixing some glaring issues to improve its speed. That didn’t happen. However, I did find something interesting in Google’s search index the next day.

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Other

The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway

Recently I’ve started seeing a lot of spam in Google Search in Norwegian. I’m not talking about a bad result here and there that ranks terrible. No, I’m talking about a large-scale spam operation that I’ve noticed more and more in recent days.

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Linux

Dynamic DNS(DDNS) with OpenWRT and Cloudflare

Do you want to update your DNS when your IP changes? Are you using a router running OpenWRT and Cloudflare? Then this short guide is perfect for you!

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Linux

Ubuntu 24.04 with software RAID1 and UEFI

Software RAID has been relatively simple to use for a long time as it mostly just works. Things are less straightforward when using UEFI as you need an EFI partition that can’t be on a software RAID.

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Linux

How to manage databases (MariaDB)

Databases are perfect for storing data efficiently. There are many different databases, but in this post, I’ll talk specifically about MariaDB. Follow along and learn how to install MariaDB, create databases, and give users access to using them. I’ll also show you how to backup and restore your database.

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Windows

How to run Docker and VirtualBox at the same time on Windows

I’m usually using Ubuntu for development with Docker and VirtualBox, but I’ve recently started using Windows 10. Docker and VirtualBox can’t be used at the same time if Hyper-V is used.

Hyper-V runs Windows virtualized, so other virtualization software can’t be used at the same time. This is how and why I switched to docker-machine instead so I could run docker and VirtualBox at the same time.

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Linux

How to run multiple webservers with one IP-address

With only one public IP-address you’ll have to use different ports if you want to use multiple webservers. But that’s kind of useless as you can’t ask users to type example.com:81 in the browser instead of just example.com. So how do we solve this problem?