Amazon have extended the CloudWatch monitoring to include some Linux scripts. These scripts run in the background and can push system metrics to CloudWatch. The following metrics can be obtained: Memory Utilisation – Memory allocated by applications and the operating … Continue reading →

Until now the rebuild of a server meant to me burning the disc or preparing a USB stick and going for a trip to wherever the machine was hosted. Now I have learned how to rebuild remotely a (working and … Continue reading →

Recently, I noticed an issue with cPanel and mail quotas. The problem was, cPanel was showing that an account was over quota when there was actually no mail. This issue stems from a rare issue with corrupt maildirsize files. The … Continue reading →

SSL certificates form the backbone of online shopping, as they provide the vendor verification and data encryption that makes e-commerce a safe and viable retail option. However, due to support for older, legacy encryption methods, the current implementations of the … Continue reading →

We have recently been looking into MariaDB as an alternative to MySQL, since it seems to be all over the place at the moment with organisations like Wikipedia and Fedora investigating its use it looks as though its going to … Continue reading →