Workarounds

Recently I ran into a frustrating issue: after renewing my VPS, my website started returning “503 Service Unavailable.” I hadn’t changed anything on the server, so at first it was confusing and alarming. Here’s what happened, why it happened, and how I fixed it — step by step. I’m sharing this so it can help…

It was late, the kind of quiet night where the hum of my laptop fan feels louder than it should, and I was alone at my desk doing what I’d done a hundred times before—checking logs on my VPS after a routine update. Nothing dramatic, just another pass through configs with a cup of coffee…

As a startup on the very tight budget. All my WordPress based websites are hosted on a VPS on Oracle Cloud free tier. It has only 1G memory and 1 CPU. In this case, having swap space is important on a VPS, especially if it has limited RAM (like 1GB), because it prevents services like…

If you’ve ever hit that wall where WordPress just won’t let you log in from your computer, you know how frustrating it feels. I ran into this on my Linux Mint machine, and instead of panicking, I documented the exact process I used to solve it — so next time it happens, I don’t waste…

I have this really old mini PC with an AMD A8-7410 and Radeon R5 graphics for about 10 years. Honestly, it still runs well enough that I just couldn’t bring myself to toss it in the trash. I figured it’d be perfect for things like photo slideshows, watching movies, or even hosting my WordPress website…

I have several WordPress website projects, each hosted on different XAMPP instances. One of these was on my laptop, which I decided to bring with me on vacation to Thailand. Since I wouldn’t need the websites during my trip, I moved all the folders of the XAMPP instance and my WordPress website projects to an…