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the number of servers you run …

April 13th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Well reading popeys blog entry on how many servers he has, and what he uses them for made me feel a bit better than I did previously, about running more than one server of my own for personal use. I only have three servers, and a workstation and a laptop; maybe I don’t waste as [...]

always check the disk free!

April 12th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Came up against the strangest problem the other day, which in the end made it blatantly clear that the most simple 1st checks should always be done; that is things like disk space etc. A server I have access too uses LDAP for user info and Kerberos5 for realm authentication. It was reported that this [...]

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http load balancing with squid

April 9th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

A while back at work I had to create a configuration for an internal squid http accelerator, and thought “hey, wouldn’t it be neat if I could load balance thefraggle.com with this method”. Now, usually Squid is used to act as a caching proxy server, which means that client http requests are sent to the [...]

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Spammers ought to be shot

April 9th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Last night I had the idea that it would be nice to login to one of my servers (beastie.thefraggle.com) and grab a look at the squid configuration I wrote a while back to load balance my website, there was a slight problem with that, however; The server was inaccesible. I’ve now found out that thanks [...]

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shiny new toys

April 6th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Roll on payday, I say. I’ve been looking at what kit I fancy for my camera when I finally get paid at the end of the month. So far it’s boiled down to two important items: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM MKIII Tripod (I’m not yet sure what to get ) I really fancy a [...]

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