Archive for the ‘Servers’ Category

X11R7.2 Released

Posted by Rom Feria on February 17th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Linux wouldn't look so cool without the graphical user interface engine that runs underneath it. That engine is called X11 Window System. X.org Foundation, keeper of the X11 scroll, just released …

Xandros "bridges" gap

Posted by Rom Feria on February 14th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Xandros announces a new product named Bridgeways, which is aimed at simplifying the complexities of managing servers in a mixed environment setting. This soon-to-be-released product "provides cro…

From old to new: data migration

Posted by Rom Feria on January 31st, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Finally! Somebody managed to write down the very same tasks that I have been doing when I was still managing servers for my department. Whilst it is easier to back-up a partition, the how-to provides …

OpenFiler

Posted by Rom Feria on January 24th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

Not too long ago, I wrote about FreeNAS, a FreeBSD-based network-attached storage device. Today, I found a similar utility but is based on Linux.

Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based net…

Home-made NAS

Posted by Rom Feria on January 22nd, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

I know that you will all agree with me that we just cannot have enough storage to store our files. The thing is, our computers, whether portable or desktop, can only support a limited number of hard d…

Block Unwanted Traffic

Posted by Rom Feria on January 7th, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

If you are managing a network connected to the internet with limited bandwidth, sometimes it makes sense to block unwanted traffic. To corporate or academic networks, blocking audio and video files ar…

More on Virtualization

Posted by Rom Feria on January 2nd, 2007 under Servers • No Comments

I predict that virtualization will be big this year. In line with this, I point you to a good tutorial on virtualization technologies available for Linux. IBM discusses the different types of virtuali…

Nagios: Another Monitoring Tool

Posted by Rom Feria on December 29th, 2006 under Servers • No Comments

I am going bonkers over server, process and network monitoring tools today. I guess it is because I often find it frustrating when services go down during the holidays. I have experienced a couple of …

Monitoring Servers using Munin

Posted by Rom Feria on December 29th, 2006 under Servers • No Comments

I wrote about monitoring your bandwidth using the Multi Router Traffic Grapher. Today, I present another monitoring tool that provides you with more features, allowing you to not only monitor the netw…

Setting up OpenVZ

Posted by Rom Feria on December 26th, 2006 under Servers • No Comments

I wrote about virtualization technology being added to the kernel before. I mentioned KVM being added to the kernel but today, Howtoforge presents a guide on how to setup OpenVZ, another virtualizatio…