by Dean | Sep 27, 2015 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, PHP, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security
I have been looking into SSL certificates for My Book It. When the site was being created, it was decided that My Book It would use sub domains to provide the school with the ability to have their school name at the start of the address. (I think this is a fairly...
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 | 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 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...
