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• Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 18

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, ftp • Comments: 0

  Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 18 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.

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• Running Contao 3.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 12.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, nginx, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 0

  Running Contao 3.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 12.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Contao 3.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

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• Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Fedora 18)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, security • Comments: 1

  EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Fedora 18 to encrypt your data.

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• Setting Up A Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS And Samba On Debian Squeeze

  Author: shofer • Tags: linux, debian, samba, storage • Comments: 4

  Setting Up A Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS And Samba On Debian Squeeze This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian 6.0, using GlusterFS and SAMBA, and custom scripts and settings to make life easier.

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• Installing Nagios 3.4.4 On CentOS 6.3

  Author: alexnogard • Tags: centos, monitoring • Comments: 16

  Installing Nagios 3.4.4 On CentOS 6.3 Nagios is a monitoring tool under GPL licence. This tool lets you monitor servers, network hardware (switches, routers, ...) and applications. A lot of plugins are available and its big community makes Nagios the biggest open source monitoring tool. This tutorial shows how to install Nagios 3.4.4 on CentOS 6.3.

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• Using PHP5-FPM With Apache 2.4 (+ mod_proxy_fcgi Module) On Fedora 18

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, fedora, php, web server • Comments: 0

  Using PHP5-FPM With Apache 2.4 (+ mod_proxy_fcgi Module) On Fedora 18 This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache 2.4 webserver on a Fedora 18 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. On Apache 2.4, we need Apache's mod_proxy_fcgi module to make it work.

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• Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 12.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: storage, ubuntu • Comments: 1

  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 Ubuntu 12.10) with GlusterFS. 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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• Nginx Catch-All Host As Front End To Apache For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Lenny

  Author: grungy • Tags: apache, debian, nginx • Comments: 13

  Nginx Catch-All Host As Front End To Apache For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Lenny Apache has always been the web server of choice for me. It is a real beast when it comes to resources usage specially in a resource limited environment such as a VPS. I started playing with Nginx a lightweight, high performance web server. My area of interest was running Nginx as a reverse proxy and making it work in a Apache/ISPConfig 3 environment.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 18 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, fedora, mysql, php, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 18 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 18 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• Set Up Rsnapshot, Archiving Of Snapshots And Backup Of MySQL Databases On Debian

  Author: grungy • Tags: backup, debian, mysql • Comments: 4

  Set Up Rsnapshot, Archiving Of Snapshots And Backup Of MySQL Databases On Debian This howto will show you how to install and set up Rsnapshot, enable archiving of snapshots and how to back up MySQL databases on Debian.

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