• 20 Feb
    2011

    Keeping your Linux users in sync in a cluster

    9 minutes • 2011-02-20 | bash linux nfs rsync storage how-to 

    As websites become more and more popular, your application might not be able to cope with the demand that your users put on your server. To accommodate that, you will need to move out of the one server solution and create a cluster. The easiest cluster to create would be with two servers, one to handle your web requests (HTTP/PHP etc.) and one to handle your database load (MySQL). Again this setup can only get you so far. If your site is growing, you will need a cluster of servers.

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  • 06 Feb
    2011

    A look in the past and the future

    2 minutes • 2011-02-06 | personal information update 

    It has been months since I last posted a blog post. A lot of things have happened since August and I have a lot of material to post - just not the discipline to sit down and proof all the drafts so that I can post them.

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  • 21 Aug
    2010

    Create an inexpensive hourly remote backup

    9 minutes • 2010-08-21 | backup gentoo installation linux storage how-to 

    There are two kinds of people, those who backup regularly, and those that never had a hard drive fail

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  • 18 Aug
    2010

    Google Apps and google Accounts merge

    10 minutes • 2010-08-18 | information google google apps how-to 

    Anyone that has a Google Apps account and wants to access other services like Google Reader, Google Voice etc. knows that the username and password of the Google Apps account does not work for these services, since those are not available for Google Apps accounts. To get around this limitation, what you could do (and what I have done in the past) is to sign up for a new Google Account with the same email address as your Google Apps account. This of course creates confusion at times, duplication of data and disassociation of services. The most obvious example of this is on an Android device. To use my phone, I need to sign in with my Google Apps account. However, to use my Google Voice number, I have to use sign in again for that service but now using my Google Account (which uses the same email address). This works but I still have to keep two sets of contacts - one for the Google Apps and one in Google Voice.

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  • 01 Aug
    2010

    Subversion Backup How-To

    6 minutes • 2010-08-01 | backup gentoo how-to linux subversion 

    I will start this post once again with the words of a wise man:

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