Tag Archives: linux

Running a Minecraft Server from a RAM Disk

Posted on 31 August 2011 by Kromey

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! That’s great, … Continue reading →

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Dynamic DNS with Linode and CloudFlare

Posted on 30 August 2011 by Kromey

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 →

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Name-Based Virtual Hosts With nginx on IPv6

Posted on 7 June 2011 by Kromey

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 →

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Apache on Windows: Serving Files From the Network

Posted on 8 September 2009 by Kromey

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 →

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RAID 10 with mdadm

Posted on 12 August 2009 by Kromey

If I had to pick one fault of Linux, it would be that for almost everything, the Linux user is inundated with hundreds of possible solutions. This is both a blessing and a curse – for the veterans, it means … Continue reading →

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