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 And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.3
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, openvz, virtualization •
Comments: 1 Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.3 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (nginx, Courier, ISPConfig 3)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: centos, control panels, ispconfig, web server, nginx •
Comments: 2 The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (nginx, Courier, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx, not Apache.
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How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Ubuntu 10.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 7 How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Ubuntu 10.10 FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to accept TLS sessions on an Ubuntu 10.10 server.
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Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (OpenSUSE 12.1)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: suse, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 0 Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (OpenSUSE 12.1) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on an OpenSUSE 12.1 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Ubuntu 12.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, security, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Ubuntu 12.04 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an Ubuntu 12.04 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.
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VirtualBox: Creating Backups & Clones Of Running Virtual Machines (No Downtime) With LVM Snapshots
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 4 VirtualBox: Creating Backups & Clones Of Running Virtual Machines (No Downtime) With LVM Snapshots If you use LVM volumes for your VirtualBox VMs, you can create backups and clones of a running VM without shutting it down. This tutorial shows just that: using LVM snapshots to create backups and clones of running VirtualBox VMs without downtime.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 12.04
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database. This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 12.04.
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Using RAW Devices In VirtualBox VMs
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, virtualbox • Comments: 2Using RAW Devices In VirtualBox VMs Usually, VirtualBox creates its virtual machines in disk images (.vdi, .vmdk, etc.). This tutorial explains how you can use RAW devices from the host (partitions, LVM volumes, etc.) and create a VirtualBox VM in it. I will also explain how to mount a RAW device in an existing VM.
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OpenVZ: Mounting Host Devices/Partitions/Directories In A Container With Bind Mounts (Debian/Ubuntu)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, openvz, ubuntu, virtualization •
Comments: 4 OpenVZ: Mounting Host Devices/Partitions/Directories In A Container With Bind Mounts (Debian/Ubuntu) Sometimes you are in a situation where you need to mount a hard drive, partiiton or directory from the OpenVZ host inside an OpenVZ container - for example, you add a fast SSD to the host and want to put your container's MySQL databases on it to make MySQL faster. This tutorial explains how you can mount host devices/partitions/directories in an OpenVZ container with bind mounts.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (Apache2, Courier, ISPConfig 3)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, control panels, ispconfig, web server •
Comments: 24 The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.3 x86_64 (Apache2, Courier, ISPConfig 3) This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.
