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Cypher status

Posted on zo 05 februari 2006 in plan • Tagged with cloud

Things are working out fine with the virtual host in the US. The basic stuff like network monitoring, disk monitoring, nagios monitoring and expansion of the OpenVPN virtual ethernet to the new host have been set up.

The virtual machine has also been set up as my third smtp host …


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Offshoring to the US

Posted on vr 03 februari 2006 in services • Tagged with cloud

While big companies are trying to offshore IT from the US to India, I'm getting ready to offshore some stuff from my home DSL connection to a Linode™ located in sunny California, the US. First thing on my list is to expand my OpenVPN network to the virtual host and …


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Xen performance problem fixed

Posted on zo 29 januari 2006 in hardware • Tagged with hardware, debian

Ever since I started using Xen 3.0 I had a feeling disk access to my primary IDE harddrive was dreadfully slow. But as I'm running 9 domains on this one machine I thought it might be normal for the load I am putting on the system.

During a free …


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Virtual ethernet using OpenVPN and software bridging

Posted on za 14 januari 2006 in services • Tagged with security

Recently I converted my routing based OpenVPN setup to a ethernet bridging setup. You can read about it on my OpenVPN virtual ethernet page.


Offsite backups using rsync

Posted on ma 02 januari 2006 in services • Tagged with backups

Linux/Unix has a lot of good software. Some of the tools really stand out for being so very useful. rsync is one of them IMHO.

rsync lets you synchronise two directories by only exchanging the differences between files/directories. local from disk to disk or remote using a special …


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