The Shell… A cloudy mystery for the novice, but an indispensable tool for any seasoned administrator. It is the underlying foundation in any operating system, and if used to its maximum potential, can be extremely effective. You might be wondering, why is the command line considered useful? cPanel has almost every function you’d need for […]
Introduction and use cases GlusterFS is a clustered file system designed to increase the speed, redundancy, and availability of network storage. When configured correctly with several machines, it can greatly decrease downtime due to maintenance and failures. Gluster has a variety of use cases, with most configurations being small three server clusters. I’ve personally used […]
Over the past few weeks, a new DDoS attack vector through the use of memcached has become prevalent. Memcached is an object caching system with the original intent of speeding up dynamic LiveJournal websites back in 2003. It does this by caching data in RAM instead of calling data from a hard drive, thus reducing […]