July 26, 2010
by Marius Voila
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Cloud has been making a lot of noise and almost every tech (or tech related) person knows about it or at least heard of it. Now for those who have just heard about it but do not know what it … Continue reading
July 13, 2010
by Marius Voila
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Virtual Private Servers (VPS) provide a chunk of computing power, coupled with storage space and networking. Many commercial hosting providers offer “dedicated shared hosting”, meaning they split up a machine into multiple chunks and rent them out individually. Often customers … Continue reading
July 2, 2010
by Marius Voila
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I spent the better part of the evening converting several sites belonging to a friend of mine from Apache to Nginx. Previously the front page of the biggest site (written in Joomla) took anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds to … Continue reading
July 1, 2010
by Marius Voila
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WP Super Cache is a very good tool for speeding up your WordPress installation while at the same time reducing server load. However, WP Super Cache uses mod_rewrite to handle requests, which is not compatible with Nginx. For it to … Continue reading
June 28, 2010
by Marius Voila
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Rackspace Cloud, or Amazon EC2, which is best? This is just a quick performance comparison using SysBench. The following products where tested. Product CPU Memory Disk Price EC2 Small Instance 1 virtual core 1,7GB 160GB $0.085 per hour Rackspace 256MB … Continue reading
June 18, 2010
by Marius Voila
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Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a key technology to mission critical / business servers which aim for the highest possible uptime on their servers. While S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) hard disk technology can warn of an … Continue reading
June 17, 2010
by Marius Voila
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It seems people underestimate the value of security. Most sites that I check on are running old versions of popular web applications (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, vBulletin, phpBB, etc.) and it’s downright scary. These applications, due to their extreme popularity, are … Continue reading
June 16, 2010
by Marius Voila
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When dealing with replicated setups with two or more slaves sharing a master, it appears as if a lot of people overlook the obvious. You don’t need to take your master down to resync a slave. I was hoping I … Continue reading
April 23, 2010
by Marius Voila
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No money / time for a fulltime system administrator ? Of maybe you need extra help besides your current system administration ? Rent a SysAdmin for a parttime price.One fixed price a month, every day administration on your servers / … Continue reading
April 17, 2010
by Marius Voila
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I’ve been lazy at maintaining my servers recently and decided to start playing with puppet reports. First I started with something simple that helps me to find on which machines my manifests have some failure. So here’s a quick and … Continue reading