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New Servers – Costing them Out.

Posted on January 9, 2012 by TimIgoe

When planning server upgrades and features, cost is always high on my personal consideration list. This isn’t just an upfront cost or a monthly cost but what gets called the total cost of ownership. What you pay over the life … Continue reading →

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Monit Rules

Posted on July 27, 2010 by TimIgoe

As a follow on from my post on Monit, I have compiled a selection of rules that can be used to monitor various services on your server. check process sshd with pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid start program  “/etc/init.d/sshd start” stop program  “/etc/init.d/sshd … Continue reading →

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Monit – Keeping Servers running even while asleep

Posted on July 21, 2010 by TimIgoe

One of the downsides to working on the internet, is that it never stops – it is a 24 hour a day, 365 day a year system. There is not ‘break’ in it, no time to rest. When you run … Continue reading →

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Important Hosting Considerations

Posted on October 21, 2009 by TimIgoe

“It is really important to spend time considering all the options when picking a web host for your shiny new website. When you launch your site, the last thing you want to happen is for it to go down due … Continue reading →

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Automatic Backup Scripts

Posted on March 22, 2007 by TimIgoe

This assumes that you have 2 Linux machines / servers – one to backup to the other. To enable the script to automatically login to the destination server you will need to enabled ssh key based logins. First off, create … Continue reading →

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