Articles by Falko Timme
About Falko Timme
Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 18
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: fedora, mysql, nginx, php, web server •
Comments: 1 Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 18 Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 18 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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How To Upgrade From Fedora 17 To Fedora 18 With FedUp (Desktop & Server)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 3 How To Upgrade From Fedora 17 To Fedora 18 With FedUp (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 17 system to Fedora 18 with the help of the Fedora Updater (FedUp). The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.
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Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: high-availability, storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 12.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 12.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, storage •
Comments: 0 This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running CentOS 6.3) with GlusterFS. The client system (CentOS 6.3 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, storage •
Comments: 1 This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running CentOS 6.3) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (CentOS 6.3 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Installing Debian Wheezy (testing) With debootstrap From A Grml Live Linux
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: other, debian •
Comments: 1 Installing Debian Wheezy (testing) With debootstrap From A Grml Live Linux This tutorial explains how to install Debian Wheezy (testing) with the help of debootstrap from a Grml Live Linux system (like it is used as a rescue system at Webtropia). This should work - with minor changes - for other Debian and Ubuntu versions as well. By following this guide, it is possible to configure the system to your needs (OS version, partitioning, RAID, LVM, etc.) instead of depending on the few pre-configured images that your server provider offers.
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How To Automatically Add A Disclaimer To Outgoing Emails With alterMIME (Postfix On Debian Squeeze)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, email, postfix •
Comments: 6 This tutorial shows how to install and use alterMIME. alterMIME is a tool that can automatically add a disclaimer to emails. In this article I will explain how to install it as a Postfix filter on Debian Squeeze.
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How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, mysql, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Ubuntu 12.10 mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 12.10 server.
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Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: storage, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 12.10. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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How To Install Percona Server 5.5 On Ubuntu 12.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: mysql, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 How To Install Percona Server 5.5 On Ubuntu 12.10 Percona Server is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. It offers more performance and scalability than the default MySQL server coming with your Linux distribution, while it uses the same init scripts and command line tools which makes it easy to use. This tutorial explains how to install Percona Server 5.5 on Ubuntu 12.10.
