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​My Nagios monitors if the backups are running (Duplicity), both on the client and on the backup servers. However, I do find stuff to go hay-wire sometimes. I therefore have a monthly recurring calendar item to check backups. Has saved my ass a few times. The test is a simple restore of one or...

I have 2 Keybase.io invitations to give out. What is Keybase?: Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys. All paired, for convenience, with unique usernames. (https://keybase.io/) It is quite awesome. Works with the gpg keys you already have and also lets you do...

Howdy Guys/Gals, This weekend our local hackerspace started a new project, https://cipherli.st. It is meant as easy, strong but sane secure ciphers for Apache, NGINX and Lighttpd. That works, we get about 1000 hits/day now, super awesome. I want to add more software ciphers. I'd like to...

This is a guide on setting up an IPSEC/L2TP vpn server with Ubuntu 14.04 using Openswan as the IPsec server, xl2tpd as the l2tp provider and ppp or local users / PAM for authentication. It has a detailed explanation with every step. We choose the IPSEC/L2TP protocol stack because of recent...

Looking to transfer something of off Digital Ocean to something cheaper. Specs are in the title: - 64MB Ram is minimum, all above is nice - +- 5 GB of disk space, SSD not required - 1 IPv4 - Location: EU - OpenVZ, but KVM is welcome as well. Website is a static HTML project to teach people...

I've got two affiliate links, one from Digital Ocean and one from Inception Hosting. The Digital Ocean one is going quite well: The Inception Hosting one attracts a lot of Fraud: Now, I myself hate advertisements. My local DNS server plus Adblockers help a lot, and website's I endorse get...

OCSP stapling is an enhancement to the standard OCSP protocol that delivers OCSP responses from the server with the certificate, eliminating the need for relying parties (web users) to check OCSP responses with the issuing CA. This has the effect of reducing bandwidth, improving perceived site...

After the beta tests I've decided to buy one of their Xen HVM vps servers. FreeBSD had just finished instelling, and that is one bare system... Now compiling nginx and python... Any of you guys run FreeBSD? And more people that have HVM plans @ Inception Hosting? Their new website theme...

Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions – and 6 other major features So, Docker 0.7 is finally here! We hope you’ll like it. On top of countless bug fixes and small usability improvements, it introduces 7 major features since 0.6.0:     - Feature 1: Standard Linux support     - Feature 2...

This is a guide on installing the latest Nagios Core (4.0.1) on Ubuntu 12.04. Nagios is an open source computer system monitoring, network monitoring and infrastructure monitoring software application. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications, and...

So, my article about DigitalOcean hit the frontpage of HackerNews. It hit yesterday around 21:00 GMT+2, one day later around 15:00 GMT+2  it is now on the second page. Lets show you guys some statistics. This is the article...

My open source IMAP Email Backup software has just had a new version. New features include:   Add support to download all folders without typing them all out. Using "NoPriv_All" as foldername now downloads all available folders. Fix quite a few HTML errors Converted layout from HTML...

I'm good at sysadmin stuff, quite well at programming but not good at design or promotion. As you might know, I give away Raspberry Pi's: https://raymii.org/s/static/Free_Raspberry_Pi.html Now I need to keep users coming. The first month went well, but I want to keep up the hype/traction. I've...

This is a guide on setting up an IPSEC/L2TP vpn server with Ubuntu 13.10 or 13.04 using Openswan as the IPsec server, xl2tpd as the l2tp provider and ppp or local users / PAM for authentication. It has a detailed explanation with every step. We choose the IPSEC/L2TP protocol stack because of...

TL;DR: A startup goes el cheapo on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet, hardware node has a RAID 5 dual drive failure, Startup loses VPS but has backups, gets $500 from Digital Ocean and still bitches about it. We have recently launched Listboard.it on a single instance in DigitalOcean to start...

Wifey is a bit overweight, and just regular exercise doesn't cut it anymore. As an addition to our daily hour of working out she now wants to try the paleo diet. Are there people here who have experience with this? It seems to me that cutting a whole category of food out of your daily intake is...

Submit Idea - Vote on Ideas The winners of the first Free Raspberry Pi Giveaway are known. I am giving away two Raspberry Pi computers each month to anybody with a good idea. If you write down your idea or code and post it to Github and the voting page, you might win. The two ideas with the...

For all you Ruby loving, low cut shirt before it was cool Starbucks hipsters with macbooks, There is a new release of OS X. All joking aside, I like the tabs in the file manager/finder. I hope the improved battery life helps when data center visits taken longer then expectes. Here is the Ars...

A colleague was raving about them today, she had some sort of issue which was network related and fixed fast. To me it seems a little more than your general WHMCS + SolusVM Host.. Any people here have experience with them?

Do you have a good idea, open source software project, itch to scratch or are you just interested in the Raspberry Pi? And do you want it for free? Then read on. What? I'm giving away two Raspberry Pi's per month, for free, to anybody which has a good use for it. It includes a case and a USB...