Technical notes from Linux and FreeBSD infrastructure work
Practical guides, troubleshooting notes, and operational references from production infrastructure work with Linux, FreeBSD, networking, web servers, databases, backups, monitoring, and security.
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Using powerd(8) To Increase FreeBSD Performance By Over 10%
Modern Intel CPUs employ a technology called TurboBoost which works in conjunction with Intel’s SpeedStep technology to temporarily overclock specific...
- FreeBSD
- Performance
- SpeedStep
- TurboBoost
HOW TO: FreeBSD Partition Alignment for RAID, SSDs & 4k Disk Drives
Last Updated January 21st, 2017. This article is really popular, I’ll do my best to keep it up to date! I’ve added notes about enabling TRIM support...
- 4k drive
- FreeBSD
- GPT
- partitioning
- Performance
- RAID
- SSD
HOW TO: Installing FreeBSD with gmirror (software RAID 1) and the GPT partitioning scheme
Last Updated November 14th, 2016: Updated to include that this works under FreeBSD 11.0 as well. Really anything between FreeBSD 9 and 11 should work...
- FreeBSD
- gmirror
- GPT
- partitioning
- RAID
SCRIPT: Automatic CouchDB Compaction
As you probably know CouchDB will not automatically reclaim unused space, nor compact or clean up its views during normal operation. Instead these...
- CouchDB
- UNIX
ANSWERED: What is the Best Way to Redirect Web Visitors to My ‘Real’ Website?
Today it’s common to have a single web site but multiple URLs which you want funnel visitors from. For example if you’ve purchased .Net and .Org...
- Apache HTTPd
- DNS
- SEO
Why I Switched to CouchDB for Web Applications
Top Reasons to Take A Closer Look at CouchDB for Your Next Project I had been looking at MySQL alternatives for some time, and have been watching the...
- CouchDB
- PHP
- Web Dev
ANSWERED: How Does My Computer Find a Website?
How Registrars, DNS Servers, and Web Servers Work Together One of the most common questions that arise when migrating customers from one hosting company...
- DNS
- registrars
SOLVED: FireFTP / ProFTPd Error ‘Unable to build data connection: Operation not permitted’
After updating ProFTPd on a server running FreeBSD, certain clients (FireFTP specifically) were able to log in, but not transfer files or retrieve a...
- FireFTP
- FTP
- ProFTPd
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