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2021 New Desktop

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I decided it was time to build a new desktop for myself.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked
MSI ProSeries Micro-ATX Motherboard (B450M PRO-VDH Max)
Hynix IC 32GB KIT(2x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz PC4-25600 CL16 1.35V
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD
Corsair CX Series 550 Watt 80 Plus Bronze Certified Modular Power Supply
Thermaltake Versa H17 Black Micro ATX Mini Tower
Antec 120mm Case Fan (5)
ThreeBulls 2 Pack 4-Pin PWM Fan Splitter Cable

I reused my old MSI GT 1030 2GD4 LP OC which helped to keep the price down to $660. I typically build at a pretty low budget trying to get the most bang for my buck.

This desktop will be running Ubuntu Linux 20.04.

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AMD Home Server

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I thought would share my latest project upgrading my home server. I use it as a web server, Plex server, and file server. The old ones motherboard is going out and I thought I would do an upgrade to something with a little more power than the old one and add the capability that it could handle running a game server for my son or something.

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Processor
Patriot Signature Line 8GB DDR4 RAM
GIGABYTE GA-A320M-S2H Motherboard
CORSAIR VS400 80+ PSU
APEVIA X-QBER Micro ATX Cube
WD Blue 1 TB Hard drives x3 in RAID5

It makes for a decent system on a budget for the planned use. I already had the hard drives and the rest of the components came to just under $300 before tax.

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1.5M Unpatched WordPress Sites Hacked

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My wife’s blog was one of those impacted but I had a backup of the SQL, so I was able to restore the content like it was prior to it being defaced.

Lessons learned: I don’t log on to my wife’s blog enough to see it needs updates. So I just enabled automatic updates for everything on it to mitigate that in the future. The downside of that is, I won’t see if an update will fail until later but I can always restore things like I did in this case.

Positives: My backups work. It was simple and easy to do a restoration. I logged into PHPMyAdmin dropped the table for her blog and then imported my backup and all was well again. After completing the updates it was ready to go.

For us her blog is pretty important. It acts as our family journal that she writes in every Sunday and reflects on our family and children.

I’m now also looking into a plug-in that will remind me to update her site.

Article with more information on this exploit and hack.

 

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