Posted in Backups R1Soft

Unable to open snapshot device ‘/dev/cdp1’ retry 60; Operation not permitted on CloudLinux

I recently got asked to investigate an issue for a friend where their R1Soft backups stopped working and so they…

Posted in LoadBalancers

HAProxy Conundrum

Here is an issue that causes a problem I have a website and a blog hosted by different companies For…

Posted in MariaDB / MySQL

MariaDB Error: 1364 Field ‘display_name’ doesn’t have default value

Spent too much time over the bank holiday weekend looking for a solution to this problem. It had appeared after…

Posted in Cloud Distributions IT Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Unix

Ubuntu Remote Desktop Box

Install X-Windows apt install –no-install-recommends xubuntu-desktop This will take a few minutes. Once this is done install xrdp, which will…

Posted in Security

Want to see some passwords revealed by Google

Then click this link and see what configuring your services incorrectly can lead to:- http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22DB_PASSWORD%22+filetype%3Aenv

Posted in Hosting

Locate which IPs your website was hosted on in the past!

Using a useful website, you can automated this using the following usr/local/bin/curl \ –request \ GET –url http://viewdns.info/iphistory/?domain=unixguru.co.uk \ |…

Posted in LVM

Increase SAN LUN filesystem on the fly no reboot centos

I have a CloudServer with 3 disks /dev/sda -> / 30G /dev/sdb -> /vm 100G –> /dev/vmvg /dev/sdc -> /media…

Posted in Containerisation

Quick Prepare OpenStack box for SolusVM OpenVZ node

The following code will quickly prepare an OpenStack VM with aditional disk for OpenVZ yum -y install lvm2 wget pvcreate…

Posted in Cloud Services Containerisation Docker Kubernetes

Suppliers of “Kubernetes as a Service” (KaaS)

Amazon EKS Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Platform 9 Managed Kubernetes Stratoscale Kubernetes as a Service

Posted in Monitoring Open Source

Alternatives to Nagios

For a long time, Nagios (Core) has been known as the De-facto open source monitoring solution, but much time has…