Category Archives: Server Setup & Config

huge crashes with centos 6.2 & LSI SAS

Yesterday I ran yum update on most of my servers. It was a large update, I guess it was centos 6.2? At any rate part of the update was kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64. After I updated 3 of my servers became unresponsive … Continue reading

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MegaRaid Manager (MSM) for the LSI 2108

I have the supermicro SuperServer 2026TT H6RF server. Each contains 4 nodes and each node has an onboard 6Gbps SAS controller, an LSI 2108. I wanted to install a manager for monitoring the drives and raid status. Digging around I … Continue reading

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The best Servers(s) in the world

So you are a startup. You have decided to not use the cloudy stuff. You want some rocking hardware! Here it is. Start with the chassis: The awesome Supermicro 2026TT. This badass in a 2U case has 4 nodes and … Continue reading

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Updated wordpress

Thanks to popurls, I happend to see the exploit warning for wordpress. I just went and updated all my wordpress sites. Thank god for subversion!

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CVS server configuration

I configured the CVS server on a remote fedora 6 (FC6) server today. It was a bit of a pain but only because of the lack of clear documentation. I needed a remote server to run CVS so that any … Continue reading

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