Technical insights and best practices for System Administration
It's 2011 and LulzSec is on the loose. Default configurations are a death sentence. Here is the battle-tested guide to locking down CentOS 6 and Debian Squeeze.
IANA officially ran out of IPv4 blocks in February. If you aren't dual-stacking now, your infrastructure is already obsolete. Here is the raw, terminal-level guide to deploying IPv6 without breaking your uptime.
Is your Apache server ready for a massive traffic spike? Learn how to implement HAProxy 1.3 for robust load balancing, reduce downtime, and why hardware isolation matters for Norwegian businesses.
Stop gambling with oversold resources. We analyze the Xen hypervisor architecture (Dom0 vs DomU), Paravirtualization performance, and why serious Systems Administrators in Norway are ditching containers for true hardware isolation.
When your single Apache server hits MaxClients, your business stops. Learn how to deploy HAProxy 1.3 to distribute load, maintain session persistence, and keep your Norwegian VPS online.
Is your database locking up under traffic? We dive deep into my.cnf optimization, the InnoDB vs MyISAM debate, and why disk I/O latency is the silent killer of Web 2.0 applications.