by Dean | Apr 17, 2016 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, PHP
So in my last post I setup and configured EHCP onto a Raspberry Pi. I thought this would be a good and easy way to run a web server from home. The installation was fairly straight forward and it all seemed like it was good except I remembered that I work in IT and I...
by Dean | Jun 18, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, monitoring, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that all the heavy lifting part of this is done. I wanted to write down a few little tips and points to do with this. Over all I couldn’t be happier with the way it works and how well it handles what I have thrown at it. But like with all IT (and especially...
by Dean | Jun 4, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
At first I thought this was going to be a fairly easy and straight forward setup. I figured it would be install FreeNAS or Ubuntu and bam we will be away. What has ended up happening was a configuration of DRBD, Heatbeat and other HA utilities to get it up and running...
by Dean | Jan 15, 2014 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I know that this title sounds a little nasty, or broad. It was originally going to be called Sabotage, but after some thought I realised that this disaster may not be intentional. It may be ignorance, or a series of mistakes, laziness or sabotage plain and simple. I...
