Mass Virtual Hosting Part Three: Disk Quotas (including NFS)
Disk quotas allow one to limit the amount of space a user or group may use on a particular filesystem. The traditional linux quota implementation allows two sorts of limit: soft limits, which the...
View ArticleRed5 Streaming Media Server Init Script for Gentoo
NOTE Please see Rotate Red5 Logs Without logrotate for a better way to configure logging. This script assumes you have installed Red5 to /opt/red5, added a non-privileged user named Red5 and applied...
View ArticleInstalling C++ RTMP Server (rtmpd, crtmpdserver) From Source on Gentoo
C++ RTMP Server is a lightweight streaming server that supports multiple streaming protocols and – most importantly – trans-coding between them. I stumbled upon it when I was looking for a solution...
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Nine Web and Server Hosting Providers I Hate
I’ve had a lot more crummy experiences with web hosts, collocation and dedicated server providers than I have glowy, happy ones – as seems to be the case for most everyone in this industry subject to a...
View ArticleReliable AJAX: Timeout and Retry XMLHttpRequest
A lot of AJAX seems to rely on ideal conditions: a server that is both running and in good health, a reliable high speed internet connection, a lack of packet loss etc. Unfortunately, this is not...
View Article64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.1 Server Virtual Machine Image for Xen, QEMU, VirtualBox...
This raw full disk image is a straight-up install of Ubuntu 12.04.1 Server LTS “Precise Pangolin” on EXT3. No packages were selected for installation other than OpenSSH Server. It will boot under full...
View ArticleE-Mails to Hotmail Bounce 550 SC-001: Part of Your Network is on Our Block List
Having trouble sending e-mail to @hotmail or @live addresses? Trouble like: Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 SC-001 (BAY0-MC4-F36) Unfortunately, messages from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx weren't sent. Please contact...
View ArticleRecovering From a Disk Failure with Software RAID
Recovering from a disk failure in a software RAID is a very straightforward and easy process. If your server, chipset and kernel module allow, it may be possible to replace the offending drive without...
View ArticleAutomated Remote Backups with rsync
One of the oldest and simplest ways to back up UNIX-like systems is with rsync. Automated remote backups are a simple matter of setting up rsync as a daemon on the system you want to back up and...
View ArticleDocumentary for Dinner: TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)
The much-anticipated The Pirate Bay documentary covers the events surrounding the trial and conviction of TPB founders.
View ArticleQuick and Dirty (and Free!) Host Monitoring for DNS Failover and Round-Robin
Round-Robin DNS gets trash-talked a lot because although it is a cheap and easy way to distribute loads it is counter-redundant: the more A records (servers) there are behind a domain the more points...
View ArticleClearing Huge Zimbra Mail Queues
An account on one of my Zimbra servers was compromised recently, leading to about one hundred or so different spammers gangbanging it. It wasn’t hard to fix the leak but once you’ve got your spammer...
View ArticleRed5 Streaming Media Server Init Script for Gentoo
NOTE Please see Rotate Red5 Logs Without logrotate for a better way to configure logging. This script assumes you have installed Red5 to /opt/red5, added a non-privileged user named Red5 and applied...
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