Tag Archives: debian

Package management using apt-get

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Glenn Enright

Our support team receives a few queries each day about managing packages under Linux. All our installs have the APT toolset installed. We have a guide on some of the basic uses listed on our HowTo page. There are a … Continue reading →

Posted in Rimuhosting | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Easy web server Load-Balancing with HAProxy

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Glenn Enright

Configuring load balancing between multiple web servers may seem challenging, but it doesn't have to be. HAProxy is a great lightweight tool that is easy to setup and has a large number of rich features for managing and serving content. … Continue reading →

Posted in Rimuhosting | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Storage Clustering Part 2: GlusterFS

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Glenn Enright

GlusterFS is an interesting solution for providing redundant network attached storage clusters. Some features include... trivially easy for basic setups supports virtually any file-system no need to mess with kernels can work across commodity network hardware suitable for enterprise deployment … Continue reading →

Posted in Clustering | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Easy IP failover (Debian squeeze)

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Glenn Enright

Say you have a bunch of servers on a fast private network, running a busy web site. And you need a gateway server so you can reach those from the outside world. You might run a proxy on a gateway … Continue reading →

Posted in Clustering | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

mod_flvx – flv movies working with apache/apache2

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Liz Quilty

Want to do some streaming of flv on your site? heres how! cd /usr/local/src wget http://people.apache.org/~pquerna/modules/mod_flvx.c apxs -i -a -c mod_flvx.c if apxs does not exist, then apxs2 should. If neither do then install the apache dev packages Debian based … Continue reading →

Posted in Rimuhosting | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Debian v6.0 (Squeeze) released

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Glenn Enright

Debian is one of our most popular distros.  Being very well suited for servers.  Debian 6.0 (aka squeeze) is now released.  It is a good option for a stable distro, with a good support life for package updates.  And right … Continue reading →

Posted in Rimuhosting | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Older versions of debian and updates

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Liz Quilty

We have come across several users who run older versions of debian. This is usually fine, sometimes for some reasons users are unable to update for some time but require a package to be installed. This is where the fun … Continue reading →

Posted in Rimuhosting | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Security at home – encrypted home directories

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Liz Quilty

This isn't directly server related at all, more for the home or office user who wants to make sure things are nice and secure. At the office we like to also make sure our desktops are fairly safe to connect … Continue reading →

Posted in Office, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Easy Peasy Linux Firewalling – iptables

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Liz Quilty

A lot of our customers have asked for firewalls, and since this is a common theme, i decided that I would help them out. Of course it can be a mission to learn how to make your own and what … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

rdiff-backup script using sshfs for larger backups

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Liz Quilty

We have had a few customers who have much more data to back up, and taking a copy of that every day uses a LOT of disk space and can be time consuming. The answer is rdiff-backup . It does … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, Rimuhosting | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments