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...
Amazon AWS VPC VPN With BGP and PFsense
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 ...
AWS VPC VPN and a Centos EndPoint
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 ...
Automated speedtests using speedtest-cli
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...
Encrypting a USB Flash drive with LUKS
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...
Allowing server-status on an apache proxy
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...
Setup crashplan on a remote headless host
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 ...
Upgrade ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 via ssh
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...
Update ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 remotely
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...
Scaling up your Acestream Proxy AKA aceproxy
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...