by Dean | Jan 17, 2015 | Bind, Crazy Idea, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc
For testing on my home network, I wanted to run a windows domain so I could play with items such as VMWare, Backup Exec, and general AD items. So I split out my network into a new range and installed 2 servers. Created one as a File Store and Domain Controller, the...
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 5, 2014 | General IT, IT, Linux, Security
Steps for setting up public/private key authentication over SSH. Download and run PuttyGen from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Click on the Generate button to generate the key set On the server run the following commands ##From Home...
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...
by Dean | Sep 11, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Uncategorized, Webtech
When I was recently showing the Booking System to a customer they asked about a really handy feature. The feature request was for the ability for them to set a Sites Terms and Conditions and then have customers agree to this before it will allow them to use the site....
by Dean | Aug 2, 2014 | Backup, Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, MySQL, Programming
So now that I have all of the systems setup and running for my websites, I needed a way to back up the data on a regular basis. There are of course many backup applications that you could use but I wanted something easy and cheap. I hunted around the internet for a...
