GUEST POST: Occasionally we post stories contributed from readers, and today’s contribution is from reader John Hirt. Thanks John!
My home office setup uses a networked hard drive to save scheduled backups for multiple computers with different operating systems.
The setup uses pretty much standard residential components for home networking and is a combination of pieces accumulated [...]
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Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X Centralized Backup Guide
MongoDB (Single-Server) Data Durability Guide
If you are a MongoDB user or just interested in NoSQL databases in general, you may have seen the excellent “MongoDB has poor data durability by default!” (I am paraphrasing) conversation started by Mikeal Rogers.
It is an excellent topic to bring up and regardless of Mikeal’s association (he’s a CouchDB developer) I never once got [...]
How to Enable Apache Worker MPM in CentOS / RedHat / Debian
I am reposting this tip because it took me a few hours to Google for it (likely using the wrong terms or combination of terms to find it) and then had a huge “duh!” moment when I saw the answer.
If you are on CentOS / RedHat / Fedora and want to run Apache with the [...]
Optimizing WordPress Page-Load Pauses with PHP-CGI
For the last 6-months I’ve been trying to deal with mysterious “page load pause” issues with WordPress on my Apache/prefork/mod_php setup. Server load was low, hardware was a 4GB 2-core machine, spent 4 months of that time tweaking MaxClients and other Apache prefork settings until I finally gave up.
The behavior I was seeing is hitting the [...]
WordPress (PHP, Sendmail, Postfix) Keeps Sending Mail to Local Spool
Description of Problem
You are running WordPress (or some other PHP-application on Linux) and you host your email with Gmail or Google Apps hosted account. Unfortunately, every time you try and generate an email from WordPress and send it with Sendmail or Postfix (on CentOS, Debian, whatever) it always ends up going into your local mail [...]
How to Check if Apache is Running Prefork or Worker
For about the last week I’ve been trying to tweak the performance of a particular Apache server with varying degrees of success and failure. The biggest frustration is that I haven’t been able to find a way to determine which MPM mode Apache was running in: Prefork or Worker. Without that information I couldn’t tell [...]
How to Use T-Mobile $20 BlackBerry EDGE Data Plan with Android G1 Phone
Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing.
As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 for [...]
Quick Printer Setup with system-config-printer
After being quite fed up with the cups web-admin app, I decided to go on a little hunt. I’m sure the CUPS admin page is great for some people but you never quite know if the back button will wreak havoc on your crazy LDAP-authenticated, SSL-encrypted setup that shares a printer from the basement [...]
Using Apache Virtual Hosts and ProxyPass Together
I recently ran into a situation where I had a server with Apache on it that was already hosting a few PHP sites using VirtualHost mappings, but I now wanted to add a new Tomcat-hosted site to the same machine.
In a way, what I wanted was to setup a new VirtualHost entry on Apache to [...]
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