For my Labs, I often need to create and build virtual machines. Many virtual machines :-). One of the most “popular” machine recently is for me the web server. The requirement for my needs is often very simple: create a web server that responds on port 80, that is able to make me understand “what machine I’m interacting with”, so, the ideal response message to the request http://my-machine-ip should be “myMachineName”.| NicolD blog
Btrfs is probably the most modern filesystem of all widely used filesystems on Linux. In this article we explain how to use Btrfs as the only filesystem on a server machine, and how that enables some sweet capabilities, like very resilient RAID-1, flexible adding or replacing of disk drives, using snapshots for quick backups and […]| Linux-natives
Today, 6th of June we celebrate World IPv6 day. Ipv6 is the new standard for IP protocols. IPv6 is important because, as everyone by now should know, the public IPv4 address space is running out. In fact all IPv4 address blocks have already been mostly consumed by registrars and the resource problem is being avoided […]| Linux-natives
A great deal of our work as Linux system administrators is related to security. Each server we maintain is bombarded on daily basis in a never ending cyberwar. Some of our customers (e.g. the website of the former Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs, government websites, high profile political organisations and media sites) are obvious targets but […]| Linux-natives