Installing Webmin on Ubuntu 10.04 using Rackspace Cloud Servers
Webmin is a great GUI tool for administering your server. Installing it on Ubuntu 10.04 is a breeze, there are 3 steps: Step 1: Load the dependencies apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl...
View ArticleInstall PhpMyAdmin on CentOS 5.5 using Epel Repo
My last post on installing phpMyAdmin became pretty popular, so I wanted to let everyone know that there is another way to do it too. You can use the EPEL repository and do a yum install phpmyadmin and...
View ArticleUsing SNI to host multiple SSL Sites on a single IP in apache using Rackspace...
Using SNI to host multiple SSL Sites on a single IP in apache using Rackspace Cloud Common hosting knowledge has always been that if you want to host multiple SSL Sites on a single server you need to...
View ArticleUsing Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers as a Service to host multiple SSL Sites
A few days ago I wrote an article about using SNI to host multiple SSL sites on a single IP. This method is excellent, and it works with Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers as a Service very well. The major...
View ArticleRackspace Cloud Load Balancer as a Service Cheater Script
Rackspace Cloud Load Balancer as a Service is awesome. It is an amazing product that makes load balancing sites really easy and abstracts away having to setup and configure one on your own. As of right...
View ArticleBuilding a Rackspace Cloud Server from Cloud Files Manually
This article will cover how to manually take image files in Cloud Files and build them to a new Cloud Server. This will ONLY work for Linux. I don’t have a clue how to make this work on Windows :-p...
View ArticleSetting up MemCache to handle PHP Sessions for a Web Cluster
A really common issue when people start to look towards scaling horizontally (adding on additional web/app servers) is session persistence. Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers as a Service offers session...
View ArticleUpgrading to PHP 5.3 on Centos 5.5
The latest version of wordpress requires that you be running at least version 5.3 of php. This poses a problem for a lot of people who are still running 5.1 or 5.2 since that was the latest version...
View ArticleBash One Liner that uses multiple variables
I’m not sure if this particular post will come in handy to a lot of people, but my bash scripting is still pretty weak and I think the best way to commit this to memory will be to write a short post on...
View Articledsh (Dancer’s Shell / Distributed Shell) and you
dsh is an awesome tool for administering pools of servers where you would just want to run the same few commands on each one. I run Mac OSX locally, so I’ll write the article from that perspective:...
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