Posts Tagged "server administration"

SSH on your iPhone with TouchTerm

I’m about to walk out the door to catch a movie this evening and I get an SMS alert from Pingdom that my server is down. “That’s strange, I haven’t even logged into the server today,” I think to myself. I hop on my Mac to check things out and it definitely is down. I hurriedly attempt an emergency console connection but that doesn’t work. Not being able to do anything nor be late for the movie, I shoot off an email to the Slicehost support staff that I can’t login to my slice and head out the door. Half way to the theater I get a response that the server experienced a drive failure but for some reason did not gracefully failover, requiring a hard reboot, and that all slices were running again. Read more

So Long Mediatemple, Hello Slicehost

For about a year now I have been running all of my projects on various mediatemple servers and while I have not had any trouble with the services I have always had to opt out of the upgrade program which essentially meant that I was paying a premium for a self-managed VPS. Last weekend I sat down and did some calculations and discovered that I would Read more

Setting up Email Services on Ubuntu Hardy Using Postfix and Courier

I recently spent some quality time (read: 6 hours) setting up email services on my server with Ubuntu Hardy. Here’s a very quick mini-tutorial of the steps that got me up and running with IMAP, SMTP, TLS, and POP3. Read more