June 2010
11 posts
Four years later and Server Admin still breaks if a listed server isn’t reachable. Come on, guys, this really isn’t that hard. IT REALLY ISN’T.
Jun 22nd
Jun 20th
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Jun 19th
Jun 18th
Today Isn't Working, Can I Get a Do-Over?
I get in today to find that the backup process hosed the website. This has happened before. So, I kill the backup process. Website still hosed. So I restart Plesk. Everything is hosed. So I reboot the server. It doesn’t come back. So I call GoDaddy. They reboot the server. It doesn’t come back. They do it again. It doesn’t come back. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat....
Jun 17th
Apache with fcgid: acceptable performance and... →
Awesome guide on setting up fcgid the right way.
Jun 17th
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Jun 14th
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Jun 7th
Jun 3rd
10 tips for boosting network performance →
“There’s no excuse. For the cost of a single server, you can build a monster IT test lab. A cheap, dual-CPU, 12-core AMD Istanbul-based 1U server can run several dozen virtual machines in a test scenario for about $1,500. Using VMware Server on Linux or VMware ESXi, you can avoid software licensing fees, while maintaining a perfectly valid platform for testing anything, from software...
Jun 2nd
There’s a lot of folks talking about Android taking over markets and being everyone and so on and so forth but absolutely no one is addressing its one, big elephant-in-the-room fault: it looks like ass and works like Linux. What good is market share if you suck?
Jun 1st