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Securing your ssh server
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 1,840 posts.
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Slicehost vs Linode
Update: since I did these statistics, Linode has upgraded their memory offering even more, which means that their offer is even better than what I show here. As of summer 2010, Slicehost'…
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Let's Stop Talking About "Backups"
Is your desktop backed up? Did you backup that server? Are your backups on a different machine? Do you have offsite backups? All good questions, all best practices. But let’s stop talking about “ba…
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Linux being secure is a common misconception
Linux being secure is a common misconception in the security and privacy realm. Linux is thought to be secure primarily because of its source model, popular usage in servers, small userbase and confusion about its security features. This article is intended to debunk these misunderstandings by demonstrating the lack…
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Snowflake Server
a bliki entry for Snowflake Server
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Feature Toggles
Feature Flags can be categorized into several buckets; manage each appropriately. Smart implementation can help constrain complexity.
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High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook
Recently, we were fortunate to host Jeff Rothschild, the Vice President of Technology at Facebook, for a visit for the CNS lecture series. Jeff’s talk, “High Performance at Massive Sca…
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Using /usr/local
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How To: Getting Started with EC2 (for beginners)
Amazon EC2 is among the more potent items in Amazon's web services arsenal. You've probably heard of many of the other services such as S3 for storage and FPS for payments. EC2 is all about the "elastic compute cloud." In layman's terms, it's a server. In slightly less layman's terms, EC2 lets you e
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Please Use ZFS with ECC Memory (2014)
In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a NAS. I would argue that if you do not use ECC memory, it's reasonable to also forgo on ZFS altogether and use any (legacy) file system that suits your needs.
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Website runs all in S3, no server.
It’s practical to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) as the backend for a web application WITHOUT any intervening application server. I have the code to prove it and I’m sharing it. If you’re a nerd, read on otherwise you may want to skip this post
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Datacenter Security: A Cautionary Tale from Last.fm
Last.fm has presence in three datacenters in the London area - this is currently more because of necessity than redundancy; datacenter space is at a real premium in the UK and we can’t fulfill our power growth needs at just one site. We operate our own 20 gigabit fibre ring between these, which means we can basically…
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Use rsync to deploy your website
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Media Temple Hacked
I don’t normally do negative posts about another person or company, but I feel this needs to get out there. A few hours ago I received an email from MediaTemple , where I host several of my clients. It was an automated message informing me that:
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Why Continuous Deployment?
Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a p...
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How to run a Linux based home web server
Sometimes you need complete control over the server, and don't want to pay $20 to $40 a month for a VPS. In this article, I'll describe step by step how to set up a home web server using Ubuntu, capable of handling modest spikes in traffic.
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Iostat -x
My favorite Linux tool in DB work is ‘iostat -x’ (and I really really want to see whenever I’m doing any kind of performance analysis), yet I had to learn its limitations and prop…