I recently purchased a new server from Dell and settled on the PowerEdge T105. I didn’t max it out when I ordered it because I know most things can be purchased later for a much lower cost. What I did settle on is listed below:Opteron 1212 CPU2GB of DDR 800Mhz RAM250GB SATA DriveI could have…
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Monitor Your Server With Cron
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you want to know what your server is doing but you can’t get to a secure terminal to SSH in. What do you do? You look to cron.Cron is a daemon that can be found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. What it allows you to do…
HOWTO: Replacing a Failing Drive on a FreeBSD System
The other evening I found myself in the horrible position of seeing my server spit out disk errors like there was no tomorrow. Not willing to risk the machine going down when I would not be around I took a quick trip to the office supply store and picked up a new SATA drive.The server…