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Configure Your HP Procurve Switch with SNTP

by Jeff Staten • May 5, 2015 • 4 Comments
HP-2920-48G-PoE Procurve Console Port

When you get a new HP Procurve Switch, you want to configure it so that the time is correct.  This helps to make your logs, monitoring, etc… all be more useful and time relevant.  Additionally, in a prior article (Setup…

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Articles, HP Procurve, Networking

Configuring HP Procurve 2920 Switches

by Jeff Staten • May 1, 2015 • 0 Comments
Configure Your Terminal Emulator to Communicate with Your HP Procurve 2920 Switch

I recently had an opportunity to test out some HP 2920 switches for the office.  We chose to use both HP 2920-48G and HP 2920-48G-PoE+ switches. We were looking for switches with 10G capability (Add the fiber sfp+ module to…

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Articles, Linux, sendmail

Troubleshooting Sendmail

by Jeff Staten • November 28, 2014 • 0 Comments
Check Your IPAddress to see if it is black listed

Sometimes, you think you should be receiving email from your linux host but the email messages never come. You have verified the email address, you have installed different email program variants, sendmail, mail, mutt, etc…, and yet the messages still…

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Articles, Network Wiring, Networking

Pulling Cat 5 / Cat 6 Wiring – 9 Simple Tips to Make Your Network Wiring Job Easier

by Jeff Staten • November 21, 2014 • 0 Comments
Using Staples and Tape Give Your Wiring Job a Very Nice Professional Look

From time to time every System Administrator will have to pull some wire to get a network jack in that one location.  And then sometimes, you have to pull a lot of wire.  We were in a pinch the other…

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Articles, Databases, Linux, MySQL, ODBC

Configure ODBC for MySQL on CentOS

by Jeff Staten • November 10, 2014 • 0 Comments
Migrate Users from MySQL to MySQL

We have already installed ODBC drivers for Oracle and PostgreSQL in prior articles.  In this article, we will install ODBC drivers on CentOS to connect us to an MySQL database.  The general idea is similar to the steps we followed…

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Articles, Linux

What’s the Difference – Use the Linux diff Command to Find Changes to Files

by Jeff Staten • November 6, 2014 • 1 Comment
Fix Differences Between Two Files with vimdiff

If you have worked with Linux or any version of Unix for a while, then you are likely aware of the diff command.  But you may not be aware of some of the siblings commands of diff and some of…

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Articles, Cloud, Nginx, Varnish, webpage, Website, WordPress

Nginx or Varnish Which is Faster?

by Jeff Staten • October 20, 2014
Nginx or Varnish Which is Faster?

I have been working with Nginx and Varnish for a good little bit.  They are both obviously great proxy servers.  The question that I have asked myself and others over this time is which should I actually use?  Which performs…

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Apache, Articles, webpage, Website

Make Easy, Memorable URLs for Your Users

by Jeff Staten • March 28, 2014

With nearly every resource a business uses these days being served through a browser, every application is now a URL.  If you find yourself in IT, some portion of your job may be just managing the growing list of URL…

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Articles, Monitoring, Performance, Varnish, webpage, Website

All You Really Need to Know About Varnishhist

by Jeff Staten • February 26, 2014
Varnishhist Gives a Great Report of What is Cached and What is Not

Recently, I have been adding varnish to some of my websites to improve their performance.  But in the end, how do I know if varnish is helping or not, or if it is helping, can varnish help more?  Obviously you…

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Apache, Articles, Linux, Performance, webpage, Website

Benchmark Your Webpage with Siege

by Jeff Staten • February 8, 2014
Benchmark Your Webpage with Siege

A few articles ago, I wrote about using the “apachebench” or “ab” utility to benchmark your website (see:  apachebench).  Ab is a great tool, but since then, I have found and fallen in love with a new tool for benchmarking…

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Articles, Varnish, webpage, Website

Monitoring the Varnish log with Varnishlog

by Jeff Staten • February 1, 2014
Varnish Can Seriously Speed up Your Webpage's Performance

I mentioned in another article (Speed Up Your Webpage with Varnish) some of the benefits of Varnish Cache. It provides excellent caching and proxying which can provide a nice performance boost for your website.  Another benefit in varnish cache is…

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