A customer of ours recently asked us to help them troubleshoot some performance problems they have been having with their ASP/MySQL based solution. They are…
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Building, installing and maintaining servers and their components.
We’ve been managing a mail server for a customer of ours for about 5 years now. We started them out, as their needs were very…
1 CommentMany years ago, before there were Xserves, in an attempt to save rack space in our cabinets, we experimented with ripping the guts out of…
Leave a CommentWe have a few servers that are still running from being upgraded from the 10.2 and 10.3 days. Most all are running Tiger server, with…
1 CommentIn our previous adventures with Mac Minis as “blade” servers, I thought we might try installing Ubuntu/Debian on an Intel MacMini and seeing how the…
Leave a CommentServer Monitor is an application that allows you to monitor the health of several Xserves over the network: Sometimes the application gets a bit cranky…
Leave a CommentIn the past couple of months, we’ve started to see the IBM/Hitachi 180 GB drives that came with the Apple Hard drive modules for the…
3 CommentsIt has come to my attention that the thumbscrews on the front panel of Xserves are a very important component of the overall structural integrity…
Leave a CommentOne of our customers runs a system that has a shopping cart system and they like it when a customer upgrades their site to include…
Leave a CommentHere is a list of the basics that every system administrator should implement: Set your Reverse DNS. Don’t leave it empty. Have geographically separated DNS…
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