Month: November 2022

Upgraded to PHP 7.4

WordPress had been complaining about the outdated PHP 5.x on my WordPress site for quite some time. Admittedly, I should have looked into it but for some reason I thought it was something I had to ask my hosting provider to do.

Writing this now I looked through my emails and it turns out I did ask them… back in 2021. At that time they advised me 7.4 isn’t available on their shared servers.

In any case, I happened to look into it tonight and found in my cPanel MultiPHP Manager. Upon clicking in there, it was just a matter of selecting my site and selecting PHP7.3 or PHP7.4 and clicking apply.

Upgrading HDDs/SSDs using CloneZilla

Just upgraded the boot drive on my HTPC from 128GB SSD to 480GB SSD using CloneZilla. Back in the day, my weapon of choice was Norton Ghost but it was discontinued. CloneZilla works even better/faster/easier than Norton Ghost.

I wasn’t able to get the UEFI .zip files to boot, but downloading the .iso file and using Rufus to “burn” the iso to the same USB key I was struggling with, worked like a charm. It’s weird cuz the computer is UEFI and in the end using the iso method it was also using UEFI.

Regardless, the clone took about 10 minutes for about 93GB of data. Restarted the computer and Windows boot right up none the wiser. Only thing I had to do was extend the partition to take advantage of the full drive, else it was still showing a max of 115GB.

Going to do the same on my server now, going from 128GB SSD to 1TB SSD.