by Dean | Jan 13, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
So next step is to get integration between My Book It and phone support. This has to be super smooth and work flawlessly but will form a key part of the site once complete. As I work through the integration I will post the steps and any issues that I ran into along...
by Dean | Jan 11, 2015 | Backup, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Restore
I figured that if I keep talking about backups on this website I had better have a pretty good setup in place at home. This isn’t something that I took lightly either, it needed to be flawless, automatic, easy and reliable. So I considered all of my options from...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Microsoft
While setting up a mixed environment server I was continually annoyed by the MAC machines adding those hidden files into the Windows File Shares. (You know the ones the .DS_Store, ._.DS_Store, .Trashes, ._Filename) After considering a few possibilities such as a...
by Dean | Oct 24, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, monitoring, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
The first thing that I wanted to do was to set-up a system that showed very quickly if the backups were running correctly. Originally checking backups was a tedious process. I would have to SSH to the box and check that the files were there, which was slow and...
by Dean | Oct 14, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, monitoring, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
Now that My Book It is up and running, I have a lot of different things to keep track of. There are backups, maintenance tasks, student counts, invoicing, plus more to keep track of. Most of these systems are automated, they have their time to run and most of the time...
by Dean | Sep 15, 2014 | Crazy Idea, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, monitoring, MySQL, PHP, Tutorial
I have started to use Observium for monitoring. It is really good. To get better insight into my machines I have started to use the Unix Agent to view info about BIND, Apache, VMTools etc. I had a bit of trouble finding some clear steps about how to install onto...
