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Automated Backups: Why Manual Tarballs Will Get You Fired

Stop relying on manual 'cp -r' for disaster recovery. Learn the 2009 industry standards for automated backup strategies using rsync, cron, and off-site replication to satisfy Datatilsynet.

Sleep Through the Night: Bulletproof Server Monitoring with Nagios 3 and Munin

Stop guessing why your server crashed at 3 AM. We break down the ultimate 2009 monitoring stack: Nagios for critical alerts and Munin for performance trending. Essential for every serious sysadmin.

Sleep Through the Night: The Definitive Guide to Server Monitoring with Munin and Nagios 3

Stop guessing why your server crashed. Learn how to implement a battle-tested monitoring stack using Munin for trends and Nagios for alerts on your Linux VPS.

Scaling Out: Surviving the Slashdot Effect with HAProxy on Linux

Is your single Apache server choking on load average? Stop optimizing httpd.conf and start load balancing. Here is how to deploy HAProxy 1.3 on CentOS to handle traffic spikes without buying an F5.