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Dedicated servers

Here you'll find many articles and tutorials for dedicated and managed server systems administration that we've developed whilst supporting hundreds of Australian dedicated servers.

File system

• Live server hard disc upgrade procedure

• Ext3 to LVM conversion

• File system resizing

• Server file system quotas

• Disc I/O performance tuning

• Wiping deleting shredding customer data before returning failed hardware to suppliers

• Unix file permissions

• Monitoring Windows Software RAID

General operating system

• Automating server reboots

• Server management with IPMI

• SELinux management

• Understanding Linux boot process

• Security cleanup of a compromised hacked cracked host

• Security is fun

• Server burnin - hardware testing

Web server

• Installing perl modules from CPAN

• Security hardening of an Apache virtual host

• Website performance tuning

• Apache virtual host configuration

• PHP on Windows

Applications

• MySQL Administration

• High Availability, Load-balanced, Replicating MySQL

• Helpful commands for working with common MTA software

• Installing Moin Moin within an individual account (run as CGI)

• MySQL vs PostgreSQL

• MySQL Triggers

• PHP on Windows vs Linux

Mail server

• Adding a new domain to (postfix) mail server on your dedicated server

Configuration management

• Cfengine introduction

• Cfengine and Package Management

• Cfengine - Editing configuration files

• Structuring cfengine programs

• Making cfengine cooperate with boottime service scripts

Misc

• HP Storageworks Autoloader Emergency Tape Extraction

• Website migration process