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Running a Minecraft Server from a RAM Disk
RAM is fast. Very fast. Very, very fast. If you were to think of your hard drive as a Ferrari, your RAM would be a tachyon — a theoretical particle that moves faster than the speed of light! light-but-disk That’s … Continue reading
Dynamic DNS with Linode and CloudFlare
Linode is a great provider of Linux-based VPS — this site is running from one right now, in fact! To help support it, and for a tad of extra security, I also use the free CloudFlare service, which provides a … Continue reading
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Times Out on First Connection Attempt?
A bizarre issue solved today: On one server, we’re running two (named) instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The first one, using the default instance name, runs just fine with no problems. The second one, however, had a bizarre issue: … Continue reading
Move an SVN Repository From One Server to Another
There’s certainly no shortage of sites offering quick instructions to move your SVN repository from one server to another. About 3.3 million (at the time of this writing) of them, it seems. So why do I have to make it … Continue reading
Name-Based Virtual Hosts With nginx on IPv6
Linode.com has recently added native IPv6 support to many of its data centers. Linode hosts the VPS that runs this blog, and it happens to reside in their Dallas data center. I was busy planning my wedding when IPv6 support … Continue reading
Changing an Exchange User Mailbox to a Resource
Creating a resource mailbox in Exchange Server is easy. And it can make managing your organization’s resources — conference rooms, projectors, etc. — real easy, especially in avoiding double-booking. But what if you accidentally create your resource mailbox as a … Continue reading
WordPress on a LEMP Stack
For years, I’ve run everything web-based on the standard LAMP (or, on occasion, WAMP) stack. I never really thought much about it, to tell you the truth: It’s what everyone seemed to be using, and it worked, so why question … Continue reading
Networking 201: Running your own DNS server
Setting up your own DNS server is an effective way to enable more interaction between systems on your network. While NetBIOS and WINS can enable the same kinds of interactions without requiring users to resort to IP addresses, they often … Continue reading
Networking 201: Running your own DHCP server
Whether you run a small business network, or just your own home network, you’ve probably made use of what I call “plastic routers” – off-the-shelf devices that you plug in to share your single internet hookup between multiple computers. These … Continue reading
Apache on Windows: Serving Files From the Network
Recently I had a problem: Without going into the “whys” here, I found myself on a Windows XP system needed to parse and serve PHP files in Apache from a network share. Sounds easy enough, right? Unfortunately, the obvious answer … Continue reading
