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Cacti, Direct Admin and exim

Paul — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:26:10 +0000

For some nice graph with some data from the hosthuis servers I use cacti to make these. The only requirement I really had that it had to be using SNMP, and it gave the current number of mails coming in …

Things can be easy sometimes

Paul — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:07:29 +0000

remember that I wrote about that KVM wasn’t working a few days ago? Yesterday I finally discovered the problem. I forgot to enable hardware virtualisation in my bios. Sometimes, iam just not so smart

mod ruid for apache

Paul — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:00:19 +0000

Another post about the setup of hostshuis.nl’s servers. This time not about the virtualisation iam using at the server, but about something complete else. A (pretty simple) apache module, but a very nice one (at least, thats my opinion ). …

Using KVM, its not always working

Paul — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:51 +0000

Yesterda I wrote about using KVM now on 2 servers. Just after I actually wrote that article I discovered KVM wasnt really working on one of these 2 servers (This server was just moved in, and is already a bit …

Using KVM for virtualisation, why?

Paul — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:53:37 +0000

A month ago I wrote already in my previous post that hosthuis.nl is using KVM for there servers. Now that we moved our first server as well to a new datacentre, we are currently installing KVM on that server as …

Debian lenny released, time to upgrade

Paul — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:15:58 +0000

Debian lenny is official released yesterday (See for more information the debian site, http://www.debian.org/). So I decided to upgrade one of the servers of hosthuis.nl, more exact, my dev server basicly. Its hosting mainly our nagios installation, second DNS, some …

Installing freedos

Paul — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:46:39 +0000

The data from the BIOS update official requires DOS to work. Iam now going to try it with install freedos, and running it then. Firstly to do this I needed to install syslinux from the debian repo. With this ramdisk …

It doesn’t work :(

Paul — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:31:37 +0000

After making the floppy empty, the USB stick empty, and copying the bios update program to the floppy disk it didnt work yet. Time to find another way of updating it

Installing debian, the hard way

Paul — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:10:12 +0000

As said earlier this week, one of my plans is to test Xen the upcomming holiday. As I need for this a new debian install thats the first thing to start with. As my current dev box is pretty old …