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Previously I posted on how to make some changes to SSL to improve it’s security for your users. This post I want to cover off some information on how to setup SSH to secure your server for yourself. what is it? Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote command-line login, remote command execution, and other secure network services between two networked computers. It connects, via a secure channel over an insecure network, a server and a client running SSH server and SSH client programs, respectively. The protocol specification distinguishes between two major versions that...…

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Recently I’ve been doing some Ops work for a company building iOS apps for different companies. While here I’ve been making a change to host OSX instances on Mac Mini’s (due to licence restrictions). These server where previously hosted under OSX running inside VMWare Fusion VM’s. OSX is a very poor candidate for Virtualization. The Operating System is very bloated and runs alot of services that allow for a very pretty interface for users. When virtualizing these services just chew alot of resources. In a future post I’ll list how I try and tune...…

So I thought I’d checkout if mega.co.nz had finally released a Linux client and it appears they have! They just forgot to mention it to people. You can download it from here. further reading http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/download-megasync-for-linux-desktops.html …

Previously I wrote about Linux Memory and Linux CPU. This post I want to talk about database tuning, mainly in regards to MySQL. mysql table types Before we can begin to allocate the correct amount of RAM to MySQL we need to have a good understanding of the type of data we’re serving and the type of load the data is going to receive. MySQL has two main table types, MyISAM and InnoDB. myisam MyISAM was the default storage engine for the MySQL relational database management system versions prior to 5.5. It is based on the older ISAM code but...…