A year or so ago I got intrigued about how to “properly” implement custom HTTP errors on NGINX after watching this rather funny DEFCON talk. The speaker talks about returning “weird” HTTP codes since browsers usually seem to display anything… Read More ›
I’ve been enjoying myself immensely playing around with Let’s Encrypt these last few days, and discovered a couple solution to common problems and issues, so I thought I’d make a small guide mostly for my own reference on how to… Read More ›
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
As any admin at any company will tell you, you can never really trust anybody that tells you it’s okay to delete something, ever. This holds especially true for email. If I had a euro for every time I was… Read More ›
If you’ve managed HTTPS sites for any time, you’ve probably come across Qualys SSL Labs, which allows you to check that your certificates are installed correctly, and also check that your server is configured correctly. It also has the habit… Read More ›
Virtualizing NTP servers has been quite a hot topic for some time, but regardless of what some people say, you can actually virtualize NTP servers, as long as you know what you’re doing. If you examine some public NTP servers… Read More ›
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
DELL Server im Rack Originally uploaded by BlaM4c Last week I spent close to 8 hours printing and applying labels to different cables in a packed and live rack. And it didn’t help that the rack runs our virtual servers,… Read More ›
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