Topic

Linux

A collection of 3 issues

Fixing 100% CPU usage on DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets

DigitalOcean offers $6 droplets (Virtual Machines) perfect for light workloads. I use it for my blog and love it because of its price and performance. However, over the last couple of weeks, my blog has been acting up. I've been receiving downtime alerts from UptimeRobot. By the time I have

MD5 hash checks on Azure Blob Storage files

TLDR: don't use md5sum; use openssl.

Fixing that weird locale error when SSHing to a server

Each time I ssh to my server I'd keep seeing this error: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8", LANG = "C" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale