Twemproxy Twemproxy (pronounced “two-em-proxy”), aka nutcracker is a fast and lightweight proxy for memcached and redis protocol. It was primarily built to reduce the connection count on the backend caching ser...
Packer.io Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant,...
Docker sandboxing processes Administrator Overview capabilities Docker is not a replacement for lxc. “lxc” refers to capabilities of the linux kernel (specifically namespaces and control groups) which allow ...
Boxen Your team’s IT robot Administrator More About Boxen A good subtitle It’s a dangerously opinionated framework that automates every piece of your development environment. GitHub, Inc. wrote the first ve...
An Introduction To OpenResty – Part 3 In the previous two parts, we setup and introduced OpenResty. It’s now time to build something with it. In part 2, we covered some of the things you need to know, such as nginx’s and OpenResty’s scali...
Additional Recommended Steps for New Ubuntu 14.04 Servers This tutorial is part 3 of 3 in the series: New Ubuntu 14.04 Server Checklist Introduction After setting up the bare minimum configuration for a new server, there are some additional steps that are hi...
Varnish on a Virtualmin Server This document describes how to run the Varnish cache on a Virtualmin server. We’re often asked about Varnish support in Virtualmin. Virtualmin is only designed to manage web servers, such as Apache an...
How to perform a fsck (File System Check) on a system disk Sometimes errors occur on the filesystem of your server’s system disk that prevent it from working properly. In this case, the only solution is to perform a filesystem check to (hopefully) fix the err...
Varnish Installation on Ubuntu Varnish is distributed in the Ubuntu package repositories, but the version there might be out of date, and we generally recommend using the packages provided by varnish-cache.org. Please be advised th...
Nginx – Disable xmlrpc.php Nginx – Disable xmlrpc.php server { # stuff location = / xmlrpc . php { deny all ; } } the above lines in vhost files per domain server { listen x.y.z; servername xyz.com; location = /xmlrpc.php { den...
Apache Solr on Ubuntu 14 / 15 Hello and welcome to our today’s article on Apache Solr. The brief description about Apache Solr is that it is an Open Source most famous search platform with Apache Lucene at the back end for Web sit...
FreeNAS FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network. ‘Free’ as in ‘free and open source’ and ‘NAS’ as in “net...