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• Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ftp, ubuntu • Comments: 7

  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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• Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring

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

  Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on Mandriva 2010.1 Spring. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk.

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• How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, mandriva, storage • Comments: 0

  How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Mandriva 2010.1 Spring This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on a Mandriva 2010.1 Spring server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

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• Native ZFS On Ubuntu

  Author: brande • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 8

  Native ZFS On Ubuntu This guide explains how to set up native ZFS on Ubuntu / Linux. It was tested with Linux 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux on Ubuntu 10.10 but should also work on Ubuntu 10.04.

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• Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, virtualization, xen • Comments: 3

  Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Etch Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management system based on Xen. In this tutorial I will explain how to create one virtual Xen machine (called an instance) on a cluster of two physical nodes, and how to manage and failover this instance between the two physical nodes.

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• Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, high-availability, virtualization, xen • Comments: 2

  Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Lenny Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management system based on Xen. In this tutorial I will explain how to create one virtual Xen machine (called an instance) on a cluster of two physical nodes, and how to manage and failover this instance between the two physical nodes.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless OpenSUSE 11.3 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: suse, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 0

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless OpenSUSE 11.3 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless OpenSUSE 11.3 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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• Icinga (Monitoring Solution) Installation And Configuration On CentOS

  Author: iron_michael86 • Tags: ubuntu, centos, monitoring • Comments: 8

  Icinga (Monitoring Solution) Installation And Configuration On CentOS Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.

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• Installing MyDNS-NG & MyDNSConfig On Debian Squeeze

  Author: ecerutti • Tags: debian, mydns • Comments: 5

  Installing MyDNS-NG & MyDNSConfig On Debian Squeeze This tutorial will describe how to install and configure MyDNS-NG and MyDNSConfig 3 on Debian Squeeze. MyDNS-NG is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

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• The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, ispconfig • Comments: 81

  The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.5 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, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

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