Making Windows XP join a SAMBA domain in 5 minutes
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006Okay, let’s move on with the Server management series. This time we’ll learn how to make a Windows XP server join a SAMBA domain name server.
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Tuning a MySQL server in 5 minutes
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006Continuing with the Server management series, this time we’ll learn how to tune a MySQL server to handle high server loads. Obviously, this piece assumes that you’re using MySQL to serve a dynamic site. If this is not the case, you’ll still find this article useful, but you’ll have to derive your own interpretations out of it.
Tuning an Apache server in 5 minutes
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006Hello again. This time, I’ll show you how to make a Web server running Apache and Linux survive heavy loads.
Hardening a Linux server in 10 minutes
Monday, February 27th, 2006Did you know that a freshly installed Linux server can be hardened in less than 10 minutes? Here’s how!
Why swap on Linux is always good, even with tons of RAM
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006Lately, I’ve been wondering if it’s at all convenient to disable swap on Linux, when memory is so cheap nowadays. Of course, having tons of RAM is a great thing: the more code and data the operating system can maintain into RAM, the faster the system will go. Ideally, you’d want to have as much physical RAM as needed to keep all your frequently-used programs and their data in memory.
I ended up keeping swap active. And here’s why.