When you create a virtual machine in Azure based on an existing image, you cannot define the size of the operation system disk. Unfortunately, you even can’t see what the disk size will be when you create the VM. I also was not able to find a table giving this …
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No, this is not the first post on how to count WordPress post views without a plugin. At the time of writing, I entered this post’s title in quotation marks at Google and there were about 4.5 million results. So I am really curious on how many views I will …
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Preparing this blog to become GDPR compliant, I wanted to customize the comment form to only ask for the comment itself, plus having a checkbox that the author agrees with the storage and handling of the data. In the background, the author’s IP address should not be stored any more. …
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Looking at Azure Storage Accounts a little bit in more detail, I noticed something that was surprising to me. Connecting to a storage account via the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (at least version 1.12.0 or 1.13.0) and looking at the content, I noticed a Blob Container named $logs and some …
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To try out new things in Microsoft Azure, but avoid to get charged for it, I find the Azure Learn Sandbox very useful. And there are two great extras for free: You do not have to worry to impact any production setups, and you don’t have to care about housekeeping …