by admin | Feb 3, 2006 | Server Administration
1. Introduction “Booting the computer”, this is a common word associated with starting the computer. Though we use it casually in our daily life, have you ever thought of what exactly it is ? or how the system brings itself to a workable environment ?...
by admin | Jan 26, 2006 | cPanel, Server Administration, Server Management
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron is a wonderful movie to watch. It is based on the book, The anatomy of greed, written by a former employee of Enron, Brian Cruver. One interesting thing that comes on our minds is the size of all power companies. They...
by admin | Jan 17, 2006 | Server Administration
Many hosts advertise 99.99% uptime or anything above 99.9%. Is 99.9% any different from 99.99%. Does it make a difference to anyone. The difference is only 0.09%, for crying out loud!! Well, there is a difference. A 99.99% uptime means 54.84 minutes of downtime a...
by admin | Jan 11, 2006 | cPanel, Server Administration
The whole process of securing a Server or network is quite extensive. I’m discussing just one major aspect of Security here – Firewalls. Specifically my topic is about APF firewall. I’m dividing this article into 2 sections :- The first section is...
by admin | Jan 3, 2006 | Server Administration
Load, in computing, is a measure of the amount of processing a computer system is currently performing, usually in the form of a scalar and as some variation on a percentage. – Wikipedia definition. In a *nix variant, Server load can be calculated by the uptime,...
by admin | Dec 27, 2005 | Server Administration
Since my College days, when I was introduced to Unixes, I love to have my own compiled kernel. It gave me that special feeling of “my machine is better than yours”. Besides, a custom kernel serves as an interesting conversation topic with geeks. Just ask...
