WordPress website page not loading

Q: Our wordpress website hosted on Linux + Apache + MySQL. Here the issue is page not loading at all. Have did restart the apache server. Then it worked well for few seconds. Again the page stopped loading. All of my clients have seen server unreachable error. There was no configuration change been done in wordpress site. All of us sudden it happened. How to fix it quickly and make my website available to users?

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Network interface name changed to “renamex”

On VMware virtual machine hot added new virtual network interface (NIC). The newly added network interface is of VMXNET3 type. Initially kernel named the new network interface as “eth0”. Post server reboot network interface device name changed from “eth0” to “rename2”. But the other existing network interface name remains same as “eth1”.

[    3.582159] eth0: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbpsvmware-suse-guest-vmxnet3-nic
[    3.598345] eth1: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbps
[    3.741375] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to rename2
[  130.435772] bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth1.

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fix network connection slowness

Network connection slowness is one of the interesting scenarios I came across. It might help someone.

My application servers are placed in one VLAN. And backup server placed in another VLAN. Since it is LAN bandwidth supposed to be 40-50 Mbps. But the connection between both application and backup server were at ~100KBPs transfer rate. I have checked router, firewall and VLAN settings. Everything looks good. No ware bandwidth limit identified.  So, how do I fix network connection slowness issue?

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Restrict ‘su’ command – SUSE

By default all user has access to command “su”. This command allows login to other user from current shell. Of course they should know target user password. The problem is you cannot have control/log of users once they switched successfully. What happens if the user by chance able to switch as root?

Desired secure method to switch across user is restrict “su” command. Enforce them to use “sudo” instead.

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