by Dean | May 22, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Webtech
For the web applications I build a lot of them want to sent out an email to their users for many different reasons. (All these reasons are legitimate, for example sending our a link to allow the users to login, reminders about upcoming classes etc) This can generate a...
by Dean | May 3, 2014 | Crazy Idea, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, Tutorial
So now that I have my web servers all setup and working I need a way to be able to define URI’s internally (such as FTP, SSH etc) I also wanted to be able to access these sites internally and my modem will not allow hairpin routing so I needed something to...
by Dean | Apr 16, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation, Webtech
Now that I have my load balances etc all installed and running (aka proxy), and the box for general websites is running smoothly, it is time to setup a LAMP server that I can customize for the My Book It software. What I want to be able to do is from a website...
by Dean | Apr 7, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Webtech
Now that I have all of the access infrastructure in place (The test machine, remote access and the incoming proxy) I can get started on setting up the servers do perform other items. One that I was very keen about was moving some of my websites onto this equipment to...
by Dean | Apr 3, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
One of the big things I wanted to be able to do was to host my own websites etc from my test gear. This will allow me to run different configurations and be able to optimize some websites in terms of automatic setup etc. There was only one problem, I am on a home ADSL...
by Dean | Mar 29, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, Security, Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that I have my remote access machine up and running it is time to install the VPN modules into it to get remote access to my network. In my previous post I mentioned that I was going to use IPSEC/L2TP VPN. After some thought and investigation I decided to change...
