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Upgrading to Ubuntu Server 6.10 (edgy)
I’ve now upgraded one of my development servers from Ubuntu Server 6.06 to 6.10 and as promised here are my initial notes and impressions: This server is configured as a bog-standard LAMP and email server, with a few custom additions like eAccelerator and Tor compiled from source. X-windows and other workstation stuff is not installed… this is [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Ubuntu Server 6.10 released
The latest update to Ubuntu Linux has just been released (announcement here), including an update to Ubuntu Server. I’ve been trying out Ubuntu Server for a client and on our own machines for the past few months… now I’ll get to see if the justly famous Debian tradition of seamless upgrades has been carried on [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Installing eAccelerator in Ubuntu Server
The latest version of the PHP cache eAccelerator has been released… one of the more popular PHP extensions that attempts to speed up PHP performance. This is first non-beta of eAccelerator that supports PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.2. It so happens that Ubuntu Server 6.06 ships with PHP 5.1.2 so I thought I’d install the lastest [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Installing Apache mod_evasive in Ubuntu Server
Recently we’ve been converting an ISP’s servers from Debian Linux to Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu is heavily based on Debian so most things are the same. The most limiting factor so far has been that Ubuntu’s Main software package repository contains far fewer packages than Debian. One Apache module we like to use on production servers [...]
Read the rest of this entry...Linux software vs hardware RAID
There’s an interesting list by a Linux kernel contributor about the benefits of Linux software RAID versus hardware RAID. One issue I wasn’t aware of: Many ATA-based hardware RAID solutions either (a) fail to manage disk lifetimes via SMART, or (b) manage SMART diagnostics in a non-standard way. The Linux smartmontools (“smartctl” command and “smartd” [...]
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