Learn Linux for 2013
2013 has arrived and you may be wondering what to do with the new year that many said would never arrive – well what better than to learn linux now and finally make that...
SysOps Blog
WordPress vs WordPress
So you’ve decided you want or need a blog on the interwebs where you can publish your news, views, words of wisdom or wacky opinions which will change the world or get you in...
Free Web Server Monitor
Following up on my previous article on server monitoring software I decided to whip up a quick monitoring script, just for fun. This script is a standalone monitor for HTTP (ie. web) and checks for...
Server Monitoring Software
The internet runs on servers and every web site runs on a server (or multiple servers) somewhere and that includes those in “the cloud”. When a server is down a site may also be...
Unix Administration
There are of course quite a few operating systems around these days such as windows, linux, unix and others. Since Unix and Linux sound sort of similar you may be wondering if they are...
MemCached: Quick Guide to Faster Sites
There comes a time in the life of every web application and the developers who make them, when it’s just not fast enough – traffic is growing (which is good) but page load times...
How to Become a System Administrator
A common question which sysdmins get is asking how to become a system administrator – the answer is that there are in fact many ways to become a system administrator these days. Clearly people see...
Rescue your server with a little magic
What to do when your server just started malfunctioning with disk errors and the filesystem switches to read only mode? You may also find various files disappearing before your eyes as you try to...
netcat – a handy port scan and more
Here’s a quick and easy way to check if a server port is open to connections.. nc -zv somehost 22 Connection to somehost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! To check a range of ports you...
How to clone a mysql database
Here’s an easy way to copy or clone a database either on the same server or to a remote server and at the same time search/replace some data in the tables if needed.. All...
