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News, tutorials, and infrastructure insights from our engineering team
Setting Up a High-Availability HAProxy Load Balancer on Ubuntu
Deploy HAProxy on Ubuntu with active health checks and Keepalived failover for highly available load balancing.
Mastering Bash Scripting for System Automation
Elevate your system administration skills with advanced Bash scripting techniques including error handling, functions, and data processing.
Getting Started with CentOS 7 Server Administration
A practical introduction to CentOS 7 server administration covering systemd, firewalld, and essential management commands.
ZFS on Linux: Enterprise Storage Features Without the Enterprise Price
How ZFS on Linux provides enterprise storage capabilities including data integrity, snapshots, and compression on commodity hardware.
Deploying Ruby on Rails Applications with Passenger and Nginx
How to set up a production Ruby on Rails deployment using Phusion Passenger with Nginx and Capistrano deployments.
LVM: Flexible Disk Management for Linux Servers
How to use Linux Logical Volume Manager for flexible disk management including resizing, spanning, and snapshots.
Building a High-Availability Web Stack with Heartbeat and DRBD
How to build a Linux high-availability cluster using Heartbeat and DRBD for automatic failover of web services.
CentOS 5 Server Hardening Checklist for Production Environments
A comprehensive security checklist for hardening CentOS 5 servers before deploying them in production hosting environments.
Securing and Optimizing Postfix Mail Servers
How to secure and optimize Postfix mail servers with anti-spam measures, relay prevention, and email authentication protocols.