How have I done without FreeNAS for so long? This is like that fun gal that can go from the fine dining wine & tea, hang in the hood and then hit the outdoors without skipping a beat ! I … Continue reading →
I wanted to have some sort of failover for my XCP 1.6 virtual environment prior to going to that full time with backups and restore procedures in place plus some failover capability using HA-Lizard. I got a great indication I’m … Continue reading →
Well I just wanted to install Fedora 19 and didn’t want to move hardware around right now plus I need to move some web/game server functions to virtual systems again anyway so I built an Fedora 19 guest system on … Continue reading →
Well I overloaded the circuit with te number of systems I had on it and didn’t have my UPS on so it took down my site and support systems. I had some of my new systems I had built plus … Continue reading →
Restored my Photo Gallery Site (http://www.dhoytt.com/gallery3/) again by restoring the database and cleaning it up once again. Hope to have some new content soon. I also restored the Site’s Online Chess Club @ http://www.dhoytt.com/da_hoytt_games_blog/chess/chess_club.html. I hope to get my new … Continue reading →
I did some cleanup of MySQL last night and this morning. Basically the forum database based on phpBB was out of control and had grown huge along with the MySQL files in /var/lib/mysql/ for that database along with the “ibdata1” … Continue reading →
There were some system administration issues with some files on the web server filling up some partitions. I cleared up those issues and everything seems a bit better at this time. Bear with me as I am doing some major … Continue reading →
I replaced a network switch in my environment in an attempt to narrow down some bandwidth issues and it now appears that my sites speeds have increased dramatically back to their original speeds. Further streamlining and improvements to come!
Well opened up the web server to pull out the dual NIC cards and they were the PCI-x interface not what I wanted to go with the dual NIC card I had pulled out of another system. The reason I … Continue reading →