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Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny

Set Up A Simple High-Availability Web Server For A Small Company Using Debian Lenny

This tutorial was written for the Debian Lenny distribution and
supposes that the user has knowledge about what load balancing is and
some basic skills of Linux, our two load balancers consist out of 2
machines that monitor each other [heartbeat], if the master stops
responding the secondary one [Backup] will take the master role [Backup
-> Master].

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 11

Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 11

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server.
It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP,
CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication,
on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and
much more. This tutorial shows how you can install Cherokee on a Fedora
11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Daily Journal With Panel Launcher

Daily Journal With Panel Launcher

How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3

How To Install And Configure Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) On CentOS 5.3

This tutorial explains how you can install and configure APF - an
interface to IPTables which lets you easily configure a full featured
firewall to secure servers and workstations connected to a network.
This guide describes an example installation on a server with cPanel
but it's only a matter of port numbers which must be open for
everything to work. APF can be used on any system.

The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.8 Server x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]

The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.8 Server x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]

Alfresco Community Installer For Ubuntu 9.04

Alfresco Community Installer For Ubuntu 9.04

This script automates the setting up of Alfresco Community on Ubuntu Server 9.0.4 & Ubuntu Desktop 9.0.4. Alfresco is an enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems.

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 5

This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder,
a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that
supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS
access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy
rules and demonstrates how branching rules can be built.

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses
virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This
is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a
single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and
upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be
stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)

How To Limit CPU Usage Of A Process With cpulimit (Debian/Ubuntu)

This tutorial shows how you can limit the CPU usage of a process with the tool cpulimit
on Debian/Ubuntu. cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit
the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time).
This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat
too much CPU. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling
priority stuff, but on the real CPU usage. Also, it is able to adapt
itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny (LAMP)

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a
Debian Lenny server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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