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Configure DHCP on Cisco Routers

by Jeff Staten • August 15, 2013 • 0 Comments

When you are running a very small business, you often don’t have the time to mess with having a centralized windows or mac directory server handle your DHCP for you.  In these cases, if you happen to have a Cisco…

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Articles, Disaster Planning, Networking

Choose a Link Balancer

by Jeff Staten • August 14, 2013 • 0 Comments

ISP Outage Anybody with any IT experience will tell you that at some point, you will have ISP issues. Depending on the issue you could be down anywhere from just minutes to hours. I once had an issue with a…

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Phone Systems

Digium Switchvox

by Jeff Staten • August 7, 2013 • 0 Comments

DIY Corporate phone system with Enterprise level support. Related posts: Configure Your HP Procurve Switch with SNTP Configuring HP Procurve 2920 Switches Don’t Forget Sysadmin Day! Last Friday in July

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Articles, Networking, Wireless

Install Ruckus Wireless

by Jeff Staten • August 6, 2013

DIY Wireless The simplest multi-access point wireless installation that I have ever installed was to install Ruckus Wireless gear.  I stumbled across Ruckus by reading comments in spiceworks forums , and from those who used it for their own network. …

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Articles, Networking

Backing up Your Cisco Router can be Easy if done Right

by Jeff Staten • July 23, 2013 • 0 Comments

Step 1 – Setup an ftp server with a user and password for your cisco to use for the backup. While this step is beyond the scope of this article, this is obviously a prerequisite for the rest of the…

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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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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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