Founder of Spofibo. Technical leader with 15+ years building ventures, leading engineering teams, and shipping production systems across startups and global enterprises. 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 https://budurovici.com/ Alex Budurovici https://budurovici.com/plan-cloud-migration-without-operational-risk 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

A migration operating model for landing zones, ownership boundaries, IaC baselines, cutover planning, and cost control before workloads move to the target cloud.

https://budurovici.com/block-outgoing-url-calls-with-iptables 2021-10-26T00:00:00.000+00:00 2021-10-26T00:00:00.000+00:00

Use iptables string matching to block specific outbound HTTP paths, understand HTTPS limits, and choose safer egress controls when needed.

https://budurovici.com/how-to-fix-slow-wordpress-admin 2020-09-28T00:00:00.000+00:00 2020-09-28T00:00:00.000+00:00

Diagnose slow WordPress admin performance by checking plugins, outbound API calls, Heartbeat behavior, object cache, and server limits.

https://budurovici.com/nginx-letsencrypt-and-acme-challenge 2019-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 2019-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Fix Nginx 404 errors on .well-known/acme-challenge during Let's Encrypt HTTP-01 validation with webroot config and renewal checks.

https://budurovici.com/hardening-wordpress-on-lamp 2019-09-11T00:00:00.000+00:00 2019-09-11T00:00:00.000+00:00

A layered WordPress hardening checklist for Apache on LAMP: SSH, .htaccess, wp-config, uploads, and plugin controls, with Nginx equivalents where useful.

https://budurovici.com/secured-wordpress-on-ubuntu-18.04-with-nginx 2019-08-23T00:00:00.000+00:00 2019-08-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

Deploy a production-ready WordPress LEMP stack on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx, MariaDB, PHP, TLS via Let's Encrypt, and baseline hardening controls.

https://budurovici.com/fixing-chef-cluster-issues 2018-05-30T00:00:00.000+00:00 2018-05-30T00:00:00.000+00:00

Recover a high-availability Chef cluster when Elasticsearch shard allocation or service health issues block normal Chef Server operation.

https://budurovici.com/mariadb-docker-utf8 2018-05-22T00:00:00.000+00:00 2018-05-22T00:00:00.000+00:00

Configure MySQL or MariaDB character sets and collations in Docker, verify Unicode storage, and understand durability tradeoffs.

https://budurovici.com/installing-mongodb-on-ubuntu-15.04 2016-01-13T00:00:00.000+00:00 2016-01-13T00:00:00.000+00:00

Resolve MongoDB service startup failures on Ubuntu 15.04 during the Upstart-to-systemd transition, with unit files and verification steps.

https://budurovici.com/excel-utf8-encoding-issue 2015-10-09T00:00:00.000+00:00 2015-10-09T00:00:00.000+00:00

Fix CSV UTF-8 encoding corruption in Microsoft Excel with correct import settings, UTF-8 BOM handling, and verification steps.

https://budurovici.com/marketing-vanity-urls 2015-06-19T00:00:00.000+00:00 2015-06-19T00:00:00.000+00:00

Create trackable vanity URLs for print, QR, and email campaigns with Apache redirects, UTM parameters, and maintainable campaign rules.

https://budurovici.com/avoiding-seo-penalties-for-duplicate-content-on-cloudflare-live-non-cached-subdomains 2014-10-09T00:00:00.000+00:00 2014-10-09T00:00:00.000+00:00

Prevent Cloudflare origin and preview subdomains from creating duplicate-content SEO issues with host-aware robots, canonical URLs, and redirects.

https://budurovici.com/git-tips-and-tricks 2014-02-13T00:00:00.000+00:00 2014-02-13T00:00:00.000+00:00

Practical Git commands for rewriting authors, recovering work, inspecting history, bisecting bugs, and keeping repositories maintainable.

https://budurovici.com/lazy-loading-images 2013-11-23T00:00:00.000+00:00 2013-11-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

Use native browser lazy loading first, understand LCP and CLS tradeoffs, and keep JavaScript lazy-loading libraries for legacy cases.