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Tag Archives: server
Nginx, reverse proxies and DNS resolution
Nginx is a pretty awesome high performance web server and reverse proxy. It’s often used in conjunction with other HTTP servers such as Java/Tomcat and Ruby/Unicorn, as it allows static content to be served directly from disk by Nginx and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged amazon, dns, elb, fail, http, java, nginx, puppet, ruby, server, tomcat, Uncategorized, unicorn
13 Comments
virt-viewer remote access tricks
Sometimes I need to connect directly to the console of my virtual machines, typically this is usually when working with development or experimental VMs where SSH/RDP/VNC isn’t working for whatever reason, or when I’m installing a new OS entirely. To … Continue reading
Tagged geek, kvm, linux, open source, qemu, server, SSH, virtualisation, X11, xen
5 Comments
How Jethro Geeks – IRL
A number of friends are always quite interested in how my personal IT infrastructure is put together, so I’m going to try and do one post a week ranging from physical environments, desktop, applications, server environments, monitoring and architecture. Hopefully … Continue reading
Tagged colocation, geek, home, how jethro geeks, kvm, laptop, lenovo, life, linux, server, x201i, xen
12 Comments
Exchange, I will have my revenge!
It’s been a busy few weeks – straight after my visit to Christchurch I got stuck into the main migration phase of a new desktop and server deployment for one of our desktop customers. It wasn’t a small bit of … Continue reading
DAViCal, awkward name, great features
A reoccurring theme of this blog is that I love to be able to use open standards and open source for storing and accessing my information – biggest example is of course IMAP for email, but I also use tools … Continue reading
Tagged acal, android, caldav, calendering, carddav, cloud, contacts, davical, evolution, geek, mozilla sync, open source, open standards, server
5 Comments
DHCP, I/O and other virtualisation fun with KVM
I recently shifted from having two huge server racks down to having a single speedy home server running KVM virtual machines, with the intent of packaging all my servers – experimental, development, staging, etc, into a single reliable system which … Continue reading
Tagged dhcp, geek, kvm, linux, network, rhel, server, virtualisation
4 Comments
CentOS, RHEL and future possibilities?
Those who know me will know that I’m a long term CentOS user – this actually started from my love of RHEL, back in my early Linux using days when I was running Red Hat 8.0. Whilst it made financial … Continue reading