If you’ve ever looked into high-availability, you are well aware that there are probably one hundred different solutions. In this article we will show you our no nonsense solution using software called UCARP. Using this simpler approach you will have a pair of hosts each of which is prepared to take over a single Virtual… Read More
Time and time again I have clients requesting that OpenVPN GUI connect automatically when they login to their windows machine. Although there is no built in solution using OpenVPN GUI, it can be done. Below we will detail the three step process that will be required to enable OpenVPN Auto Connect. The first step is… Read More
I recently ran into a situation where a customer of mine had purchased a new HP Proliant server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 ROK license (Reseller Option Kit). This specific customer is using the Proliant as part of their virtual infrastructure, so naturally the server has VMware ESXi Server installed on it. The issues… Read More
SharpDevelop (also styled as #develop) is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform. To allow for easy project migration, SharpDevelop works natively with Visual Studio project and code files. It is able to compile applications for .NET Framework version 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0… Read More
WinDirStat is a free, open-source disk usage analyzer and cleanup software for Microsoft Windows. Mac OS X users should use Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective alternatives. Linux users should try KDirStat or others such as Baobab (a component module of gnome-utils package). The program can scan local partitions or entire hard disk drive, presenting the… Read More
If you would like to use the latest version of XtraBackup and prefer using the package manager like me, the following steps below will enable you to install XtraBackup from the Percona repositories. At the time of writing, the latest version in the Percona repo is 2.1.8.
Percona XtraBackup is an open source, free MySQL® hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. With Percona XtraBackup, you can achieve the following benefits: Backups that complete quickly and reliably Uninterrupted transaction processing during backups Savings on disk space and network bandwidth Automatic backup verification Higher uptime due to faster… Read More
If you have installed Bind DNS Server on Debian or Ubuntu, you probably noticed that all the output will be redirected to /var/log/syslog. We like to have our logs separate for each daemon, so in order to make that change we will need to add some configuration to bind9. First in /etc/bind/named.conf you will need… Read More
If you are using Pfsense Firewall as an OpenVPN endpoint, then chances are, you are aware that you can authenticate your users against multiple types of authentication providers. Beyond that, you can also use authentication providers to allow access to the administration interface of Pfsense itself. In this tutorial I will show you how to… Read More
Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing… Read More