Greetings, It has been a while since we posted any useful tidbits for you , so we have decided to share one of our quick & dirty centralized backup scripts. The script relies on ssh key based authentication, described here on this blog. It essentially parses a configuration file where each variable is separated by […]

Lately we’ve been all about live migrations / backups here at *.hosting. And why not? with the advent of such concepts as “self healing blade cloud environment” , we have made a point to testing / scripting live migration scenarios. Following on our last post of backing up LVM volumes, we have decided to make […]

There seems to be a lot of tutorials with respect to how you can dump/restore FreeBSD implementations. However, none of them appear to be all encompassing what is actually required from start to finish during the entire process.

Since this setup uses one FTP account to create user home directories and upload files, a compromise to this FTP user would cause the attacker to gain access to all FTP user home directories.

It is always a good idea , when implementing open source firewall implementations (iptables, pf, etc), to build in as much reporting and verbosity as possible. Somewhere along the line, we wrote a script to provide daily reports on intrusion attempts to penetrate our network — this usually happens when someone exceeds certain connection thresholds.

To set up a wireless access point using FreeBSD, you need to have a compatible wireless card. We are using a Prism 2-based chipset. For a complete list of cards that are supported, consult the man page for wi, or visit the Wireless Network Interface Section of the FreeBSD documentation site.

One of the headaches I’ve encountered is trying to get my Dual monitors working with my Ati/Radeon video card in FreeBSD. I’ve written a little tutorial to help those who may need help or are thinking of implementing a second monitor.

Without getting into too much detail, here are several things that we usually “omit” from the kernel options during make buildworld / buildkernel to provide for a 60-70% kernel footprint reduction