mixing mods
Note to self. When setting up an apache mod_cache proxy make sure the backend is not using mod_deflate unless it show a huge performance gain with the deflation. mod_deflate likes to pass a Varies header of agent so that in the cache you end up with a separate cached item for every user-agent that comes […]
mac hosts
For future reference, I am not insane when when editing /etc/hosts and the changes don’t show up immediately on OSX. Mac uses lookupd so I need to send a /usr/sbin/lookupd -flushcache.
New Facility
Going to the new facility we cut down to four racks of space which was made very much possible by moving from our old 3U 1850 and DL380s we purchased in around 2001, to new DL360 G5s which are 1U. I can run about 4 virtual servers of similar memory and processor on the newer […]
Clean it up, clean it up
It’s been a crazy last few weeks but the server move has gone off fairly well. I managed to move all of the uclick servers in one weekend from our old facility to the new one. In the mix I managed to change internal IPs of all of our servers which at current count sits […]
Facilitating
So it looks like we’ll be moving to CoSentry up north in KC near the airport for our new hosting facility, since the location we are at now will be closing down in a few months. That means as the newly appointed sysadmin I also am plotting out the move to the new hosting facility. […]
Quote of the Day
“R2D2 is remotely administered via SSH.” R2D2 PC This is something I always expected to be true
sysadmin++
So it looks like I am headed to the SysAdmin role. I had a talk with our CEO today and he’s all for the idea, which is good because I wasn’t sure how he’d feel about it. Ideally it should be the new CTO’s decision but he started just a few weeks ago and Chris […]
SysAdmin
Our current SysAdmin is going to move over to another group and become a C# programmer. Which leaves a hole in our group of five geeks at the company, so today I let the powers that be know that I was interested in the SysAdmin position. Currently I do a fair amount of Sysadmin work, […]
Who turned out the lights?
We had one of our racks at the hosting facility lose power last night. I had thought everything was setup so that we had redundant power supplies and this would not be a problem, apparently that was not the case. Do to our switchover from some old hardware to new hardware the rack that went […]
basic ssh proxy
So here’s the problem I connect from home which puts me into the network on subnet A which let’s me talk to subnet B. Subnet B can talk to production servers on subnet C but connections from subnet A cannot go directly to subnet C. Well this puts me in a pickle as I really […]