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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...