I run my media downloading stack on a Gen 8 HP Microserver. This comes with 2 builtin 1Gbps ports (as well as the dedicated ilo port). As this machine is used for downloading and streaming media, i...
Setting up a VPC with a VPN and routes propagated over BGP was something i had recently tasked myself in work. These is how i made it work. Intro Firstly, i’m not going to go over setting up the ...
I didnt find much concrete information on terminating an AWS VPN on a Centos 6 box, so figured id write it up here, for my own reference as we as others. There isnt an option to download a config ...
Due to issues with my ISP, i wrote a really quick automated speedtest using speedtest-cli which sends the output to graphite. This is is a quick script i knocked up which runs speedtest-cli, parse...
Here is a quick run through on how to encrypt a USB flash drive using Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS). Here is the LUKS config: [[email protected] jon]# fdisk /dev/sdd > Command (m for help): n &g...
For my new graphing machine (graphite, grafana, collectd) i wanted to be able to view the Apache server-status of a couple of my reverse proxy’s. This is the directive i had to add. It was actuall...
I needed to setup Crashplan on my local linux server which is acting as an NFS and SMB server for all my media. As this is a headless server and the CrashPlan app doesnt have a cli, this is how to ...
I recently updated an ESXi 5.5 host to 6. This is a remote machine so didnt have access to load the ISO. This is how i did it via SSH and ESXCLI. Running through the ESXi update: Shut down all ru...
I needed to update a server from ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 which was hosted with OVH. I really didnt want to rebuild it using their installer as it would mean reformatting and rebuilding and also a lot of do...
To test my Aceproxy, i posted the link to a particular subreddit to get some traffic generated. One of the main issues i saw with the proxy (excluding being reliant on the acestream source) was tha...
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