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The Debate over OpenSource is back! I just read these 2 very interesting articles about whether you should use Windows as your cloud Server, even though it’s less popular? and whether cloud pricing methodologies are making Open Source cost the same as Proprietary? We deal with this question every day. Being cheap and broke …
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Get Google contacts to sync with your Vtiger Install OpenSource Charming CRM. Everything will work much more smoothly than with Vtiger: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B073WXGVSW Here is a bit of directions to get Google contacts to sync with your Vtiger. You need to create an API for Contacts and/or Calendar and give it your URL. After all this …
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Here is a script that can be used to block countries that dont buy your products but still hack their way in . You need to use the ISO code of the country in small letters. Add the script to cron to update it regularly. #!/bin/bash # Purpose: Block all traffic from …
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“I Hate Salesforce” – For people who are frustrated and say Salesforce. Charming CRM based on Vtiger 7 vs Salesforce Charming CRM is based on Open Source Vtiger 7. It is pre-installed on an AWS Ec2 Server. Charming CRM addresses much advice given about Vtiger 7 bugs, especially the WebForms have been fixed. Webforms have …
Microsoft Oulook’s spam filter is broken for a while now. I got sick of wasting time deleteing spam. So I installed SpamAssassin. the last time I used this it was OK. But needed to be taught not trash transliterated Hebrew words like “Mezuzot” since my other Business is producing such Judaica tutorial we are going …
Vtiger is the most popular open source CRM. The project owners also have a for pay service, but are still very committed to the open source community edition. Here are fixes for popular issues found in the Open Source edition. WebForms dont save and then give 500 error Opportunities Mbstring error PDF exports instructions and …
Vtiger WebForms don’t work, so here is a quick and needed fix. Vtiger version 5, 6 and 7 have issue creating webforms to capture leads from their website. They have added the ability to have the form work with other modules than just leads, but it still didn’t work. Install OpenSource Charming CRM. Everything will …
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Adding Cluster Nodes At this point, we have a cluster with a single manager node – a cluster, albeit meagre in substance. Before we augment the cluster with additional nodes, we need to attend to an AWS configuration detail. Docker Machine will have created an AWS security group (in the absence of our specifying the use of …
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For our popular PHPlist server that uses Hmailserver on aws.amazon.com/marketplace/ sometimes you cannot use SES, But the users still want their messages delivered. so here is some info. I hope that it is helpful. I’ve been trying to setup my hmailserver with DKIM. I was following this guide -> https://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29402 And I created my keys with …
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Docker-machine for AWS call the ami that you want as the base and much more Source: Amazon Web Services | Docker Documentation docker-machine create –driver amazonec2 –amazonec2-access-key AKI******* –amazonec2-secret-key 8T93C******* aws01 Environment variables You can use environment variables: $ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKID1234567890 $ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=MY-SECRET-KEY $ docker-machine create –driver amazonec2 aws01 Options –amazonec2-access-key: Your access …
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Running MongoDB replica set with one click is the goal. Perhaps this will help. At Google, everything runs in a container, including databases. You just need the right tools. Kubernetes 1.5 includes the new StatefulSet API object (in previous versions, StatefulSet was known as PetSet). With StatefulSets, Kubernetes makes it much easier to run stateful …
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This article about building MongoDB replica sets buy Elad Nava is really good! However, running a scalable, highly-available MongoDB cluster is a whole ‘nother story. You need a good understanding of how replica sets work and be familiar with the inner workings of MongoDB. And you need to set up tooling to constantly monitor …
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This method uses SHA to hash the date, runs through base64, and then outputs the top 32 characters. date +%s | sha256sum | base64 | head -c 32 ; echo This method used the built-in /dev/urandom feature, and filters out only characters that you would normally use in a password. Then it outputs the top …
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