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Monitoring Your Systems with Nagios

by Jeff Staten • September 4, 2013 • 1 Comment
Setup Nagios to Monitoring

Once you have a system that becomes important to your organization, you will want to begin to monitor it to ensure that it is up and running and to be able to measure and create uptime reports for those services…

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Articles, Cloud, Disaster Planning, VMWare

Disaster Recovery Made Simple With VMWare

by Jeff Staten • August 29, 2013 • 4 Comments
With VMWare and Veeam you can create a simple Disaster Recovery Plan on a very small budget.

Installing a VMWare private cloud was a huge step in making my sysadmin life easier.  Then, adding Veeam backup and replication made it simple. Disaster Recovery Made Simple With VMWare I have had to make several Disaster Recovery plans throughout…

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Articles, Networking

Joining Buildings with Fiber

by Jeff Staten • August 26, 2013 • 0 Comments

Network Challenge – Connect Two Buildings I have had to extend my network into a second building two times in the last several years.  The first time I got lucky.  Although there was no fiber to the building –to either…

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Articles, Disaster Planning, DNS, Networking

Setup DynECT Dynamic DNS

by Jeff Staten • August 22, 2013 • 2 Comments

There are some things in life that don’t make any difference to you when everything is good.  But suddenly make you happier when there is a problem.  For me, DynECT Managed DNS traffic management is one of these.  It doesn’t…

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Articles, Networking

Create a SonicWall SSLVPN

by Jeff Staten • August 21, 2013 • 12 Comments

SonicOS Version There are several great tutorials out there on how to setup a SonicWall SSLVPN.  Each one is somewhat different as the SonicOS changes and the steps and location of items changes from release to release.  So, while they…

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Articles, Monitoring

Dotcom-monitor for Monitoring your Website

by Jeff Staten • August 20, 2013 • 2 Comments
BrowserView reports include awesome waterfall charts detailing your website's performance

Before you read this article – I don’t write about a service that I don’t use, and while this may appear like a product testimonial, well it is.  But I only write about it because it solved a problem for…

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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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