Getting the Job Done with Let’s Encrypt

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The Let’s Encrypt project (or movement if you wish), backed by Facebook, Cisco, Akamai, Mozilla, EFF and many more; is now in open beta. Since closed beta started I have been hearing a lot of

Fix for HA Clustering Froxlor

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One of the requirements of clustering web servers is that the loadbalancers in front can count on the fact that all the content nodes are on the same sheet of music. Therefore, it is not

Froxlor Love! ;)

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The situation: I have been working with Froxlor for years (since the fork from syscp) and have even contributed at times to the code base. Over the years I have constantly re-evaluated other UI’s to

Short list of must have tools

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Over the course of ones carrier as a System or Network Administrator one will encounter a quite a few utilities to “help” in the excution of ones work. A large majority of those tools are

PHP-FPM Processor Load

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I run just about everything in Proxmox/OpenVZ containers. Recently I noticed after doing a fresh install of PHP-FPM that the pools for PHP-FPM were eating up a LOT of CPU time. That PHP-FPM can eat

Tomcat 6 with logrotate

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Quite a few of my clients purport to being professional Java developers. The problem I have with such a statement is that they always use Tomcat and never know how to set it up. Now,

Migrate Redmine from MySQL to MariaDB

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I recently switched from MySQL to MariaDB. As a result my Redmine installation decided to rebel and I, of course, didn’t even notice until a user informed me. The error message that Redmine (ruby actually)

The Rules of *NIX Club

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  1st RULE:You do not talk about *NIX CLUB. 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about *NIX CLUB. 3rd RULE: If someone says “crash” or goes off-line, drops carrier the hack is over. 4th RULE: