General

Disable root login is a security measure that can be used on a Linux server.  One of the biggest security holes you could open on your server is to allow directly logging in as root through ssh, because any cracker can attempt to brute force your root password and potentially get access to your system […]

MOOSEFS Moosefs stands for Moose File system which is a distributed file system. A file system which is shared for multiple systems via network is known as Distributed File System. Let me explains more about MooseFS Storage sharing Advantages of Distributed File System Facilitates user to access all resources from a single point As the files […]

While checking a site nonavailability issue, I came across multiple expiration dates for the domain, when checked through WHOIS. The top portion of the result showed an expiration date which is one year ahead of the expiration date shown in the lower part of the same result. This amused me a lot and inspired me […]

Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD)  or network raid mirrors block devices between multiple hosts. A block device is the type of device used to represent storage in the Linux Kernel. All physical disk devices present a block device interface. DRBD mirrors a partition between two machines allowing only one of them to mount it at […]

Mysql server optimization requires customization of various values based on the requirement and availability of resources. An admin needs to be shrewd while making a decision about the values to be placed for each variable to fine-tune it to provide excellent performance. To avoid the overhead of calculating each variable, most admins prefer to copy […]