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ZFS disk remove

Paul — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:45:00 +0000

Because I need to help some friend with backup up data from his broken PC I need to temporary remove my 2TB disks from my zfs pool so I have enough diskspace. This is my current pool with the status: …

Direct Admin API

Paul — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:04:35 +0000

The last few weeks I have been working with the Direct Admin API for a new android application. Badly enough the direct admin API is just one large pain to work with, there are several issues with it, and they …

greylist stats 2

Paul — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:36:04 +0000

A long time ago I wrote about using greylisting on my servers. Now, more then a year later, I accidently looked at the stats. web:~# greylist stats Statistics since Thu Dec 24 12:59:53 2009 (510 days and 7 hours ago) …

Lighttpd and dualstack IPv6/IPv4 and SSL

Paul — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:52:18 +0000

Reading over the internet you can find a lot of information over all kind of related issues. However, nearly no one is, as far I can see, trying to get and a dualstack connection and a SSL connection working. Due …

Windows 7 and laptop Batteries

Paul — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:34:20 +0000

since around half october I have been using WIN7 as my main OS on my laptop. At this moment, my laptop battery was working perfectly. Not as good as when it was brand new, but it was working for around …

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 …