Borg backup (https://github.com/borgbackup) is an open source backup tool which, in addition to the usual backup features like strong client-side encryption and compression, has several important characteristics which make it… Read more »
Overview: We recently carried out a short introductory Docker workshop, starting from scratch, installing Docker and taking it through to the point where a software stack, consisting of several linked… Read more »
I’ve now had the AmplifiHD at home for two months – during that time it has worked perfectly – never had to intervene, no downtime, no problems whatsoever.
We’ve been recently running rest APIs on active-active server pairs (docker containers running on pairs of VMs on separate hosts) with postgres-BDR (multi-master bidirectional replication) for fault-tolerant storage and a pair of fault-tolerant HAProxy instances for incoming… Read more »
We live in an old house, on three levels. Its always been a challenge to achieve consistent wifi coverage throughout the house. We neglected to install ethernet cabling when we… Read more »
I’ve been using an i5 Intel NUC at home as a home server. I initially installed ESX on the NUC and ran an ubuntu VM with iptables, DNS, DHCP etc…. Read more »
We’ve been using Devolo powerline networking at home for years – we have an old house with wifi-proof walls. We’d been having plenty of problems with them, possibly due to… Read more »
We used to wait for Jenkins to produce us a Cobertura report and of course nobody read it until delivery time arrived and we realised we hadn’t met the SLAs…. Read more »
We came across a weird problem on ESX5i. Occasionally, one of our hosts would suddenly be unable to start any VMs – the running VMs were fine, but any attempt… Read more »
I used to add custom FormValidators to forms where multi-field validation was required (like checking if two copies of an entered password match. However, this approach has some problems –… Read more »