server
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⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs
Recently, one of our servers running Arch Linux refused to boot after updates. The fix was to comment out a line in the /etc/default/grub file. It took about 15 minutes to find and everything was done in a rescue terminal — no need to boot …
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🚫 No Golden Machines
As humans, we can become attached to “golden” machines. A very expensive bicycle set up just right, a well-tuned tool, a nicely configured workstation, a server that we have set up just right … We like buying expensive things or the iterati…
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Apache and how to correctly use NameVirtualHost
As I often get involved in server administration (SVN, git, redmine, etc setup), I deal with Apache on a regular basis. For simple configurations, the default Ubuntu/debian config works well. However, for a more complex setup with virtual…