How to Setup and Configure Plaid in PHP or Laravel

TLDR – If you don’t care about following along with the guide, you can find all the code here. Though I’d recommend reading below to see how everything works together. As of this writing, Plaid has SDKs for Node, Python, Ruby, Java, and Go, but no such (official) library exists for PHP. In my opinion, … Continue reading How to Setup and Configure Plaid in PHP or Laravel

How to Permanently Kill and Remove kdevtmpfsi or kinsing

I had an issue with one of my staging servers on Digital Ocean, running Ubuntu 20.04. CPU utilization was at 100% for a couple of hours, and I knew something had to be up. Upon further investigation, I found that 100% of my CPU was being utilized by a process called “kdevtmpfsi”. After some Googling, … Continue reading How to Permanently Kill and Remove kdevtmpfsi or kinsing

How to Automate cPanel Backups in WHM

I built a playlist on YouTube, talking about how I earn passive income by selling hosting accounts via a Reseller. Right now, a couple thousand dollars per month passively. To my surprise, that playlist has blown up, and many people have found it incredibly useful. However, one of the most frequent questions I get is … Continue reading How to Automate cPanel Backups in WHM

How I Make Over $3700/month in Passive Income with Reseller Web Hosting

Edit: This became such a popular article, that I decided to create a completely free mini-course, talking about how I do it. You can watch that here, if you’d like, instead of reading. Edit 2 – 10/25/22: Since this article was written (over 2.5 years ago), this side hustle has increased from $700/mo to $3,700 … Continue reading How I Make Over $3700/month in Passive Income with Reseller Web Hosting

How to Migrate an AD LDS Instance

AD LDS stands for “Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.” If you’re not familiar with this, it’s basically a simple way to provide an authentication system for an application via LDAP, but without all the bells and whistles of a full blown Active Directory configuration. In the past 6 months, I’ve had to migrate three different … Continue reading How to Migrate an AD LDS Instance

Why I use RunCloud over ServerPilot

Edit 2/3/20: I’ve switched away from using either RunCloud or ServerPilot. You can read about that here. I host around 18 different websites (mostly WordPress), both for myself, and for small-to-medium sized business clients. This creates a small pool of “fun money” on the side for me, that’s entirely passive. It also lets me break … Continue reading Why I use RunCloud over ServerPilot

How to install MongoDB silently on Windows Server 2016

I had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to install MongoDB silently via the command line in Windows server. Although the Mongo documentation is thorough, the exact commands listed didn’t work for me out of the box. Keep in mind that these commands work best using the standard cmd shell, and … Continue reading How to install MongoDB silently on Windows Server 2016

Setting up Apache and Tomcat with mod_jk on Windows

To be honest, I find it a little pointless to be writing this in the first place, as there are already so many guides on the internet on setting up Apache with Tomcat using mod_jk. In fact, there are better ways, such as using mod_proxy which comes bundled with Apache by default. However, some of … Continue reading Setting up Apache and Tomcat with mod_jk on Windows