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Backup Strategy

20/01/2018

Do you have one? Backups are often done incorrectly, inaccurately or not at all. What should we do when planning our backup? Having no backup strategy is almost as bad as having no backups. Our backup strategy tells us a few things: When to backup. (not how many times a day or week, but WHEN). […]

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Task Automation

20/01/2018

Why Automation? In IT, as in most business, there are certain tasks which end up stealing all your joy by being endlessly boring and repetitive. We used to call them “character building” but with all that is available to us today, we can dispense with manually doing many of these “character builders”. What these tasks […]

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IIS Server – Multiple sites with one IP

16/01/2018

One misconception I often come across with clients that are new to hosting and for some reason want to host on IIS Web server is that they need an IP address for each website. This is not true as IIS is just as capable of Virtual Sites as for example Apache or NginX. The secret […]

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DNS Records – Best Practice

15/01/2018

Although the basics of DNS records is easy to understand, I often see badly configured DNS zones. Here are a few pointers to help keep that DNS pure and fast according to industry best practice. CNAME RECOMMENDATIONS These records are heavily overused and abused. The basic rule is that a CNAME should never point to another […]

Linux Security

Convert CentOS 7 FirewallD to iptables

29/12/2017

How to convert your CentOS 7 firewall from FirewallD to iptables, and fix fail2ban On Centos 7, the default firewall is firewalld. Even though this is just a shell interface to configure iptables, it has its limits when it comes to applying advanced rules and customizing your firewall. You can fix this by getting rid of […]

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Bash for Beginners

27/12/2017

BASH or the “Bourne-Again Shell” is the scripting language with which many Linux tasks are accomplished. It is an easy to use language and can be freely adapted and expanded which makes it extremely powerful. It enables us to write our own commands, making systems automation (when the computer does the boring tasks) very […]

Backup Strategy

Task Automation

IIS Server – Multiple sites with one IP

DNS Records – Best Practice

Convert CentOS 7 FirewallD to iptables

Bash for Beginners

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