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How to Setup An HE Tunnel to VPS (Ubuntu Host)

Jun 16, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a tutorial where I explained how to set up a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel on your KVM VPS. While this is a nice solution, it still requires the customer to fix something that should have been done by the provider. So, I thought, let's write a tutorial for providers how to fix this for the customer. In this tutorial I will show you how to set up a bridged network interface and radvd to get t...

How to Setup An HE Tunnel to VPS (Ubuntu Host)

Managing multiple servers with Ansible groups

mpkossen

Jun 08, 2013

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In my previous article about ansible, I gave a very basic introduction to it. After reading it, you were able to create your own playbooks and apply them to a single (group of) server(s). However, ans...

Managing multiple servers with Ansible groups

IPv6 with a Hurricane Electric tunnel

mpkossen

Jun 01, 2013

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IPv6 is a topic that has received a lot of discussion over the last couple of years. Although originally from 1996, IPv6 became more important and more implemented over the last few years because of I...

Encrypted backups with duplicity

mpkossen

May 25, 2013

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Backups are about the most important thing about managing a server. If anything happens to your server, like data loss, a customer making a mistake (and accidentally removing data) or a full-blown ser...

Getting started with ansible

mpkossen

May 18, 2013

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A common problem with managing multiple servers is keeping their configurations identical (or similar, depending on the purpose of the servers). When you set up a server (say server1), you tweak the c...

Remote server monitoring with nagios

mpkossen

May 11, 2013

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There are many ways to remotely monitor your servers, but nagios is one of the most configurable and flexible ones. Once you have set up nagios, your localhost is being checked. But when there are rea...

Server Monitoring with Nagios Tutorial

mpkossen

Apr 20, 2013

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Nagios is one of the most easy, expandable and trustworthy ways to monitor the status of your server(s). It is highly configurable and even lets you write your own plugins in whatever language you wan...