High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4 - Automatic File Replication (Mirror) Across Two Storage Servers This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (CentOS 5.4) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storag...

Although more than a bit late getting posted here, you should know about the accomplishments of the p2k9 Ports Hackathon. Sure, it might look like a party, but when you get a bunch of people together with similar ideas of having fun porting programs, amazing a...

BIND Installation On CentOS BIND is alternative software for translating domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they are easier to remember. So if we will browse the Internet we don?t need to remember IP addresses. For example, the domain name www.yourdomain.com might...

Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4 This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on CentOS 5.4. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS i...

According to this message from Dan Langille, registration for BSDCan is now open. The BSDCan conference this year is once again stuffed full of fantastic speakers from the BSD world including some of the OpenBSD developers and a few OpenBSD specific talks. Just to name a few: Henning...

Highly Available NFS Server Using DRBD And Heartbeat On Debian 5.0 (Lenny) This HowTo explains how I set up a highly available NFS server using Debian 5 (Lenny) and drbd8 with heartbeat. ...

badger.foo writes "The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have your CD set, T-shirt or other cool stuff before the official release date. You get the chance to s...

Pre-orders are now being accepted for OpenBSD 4.7, which is scheduled for release on May 19th, 2010. Fresh from the keyboards of the developers, this release brings us support for a new platform, Loongson, expanded SGI systems support, a large pf rewrite, a collection of new (athn(4), ...

Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10) This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownlo...

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