We’ve been managing a mail server for a customer of ours for about 5 years now. We started them out, as their needs were very…
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Building, installing and maintaining servers and their components.
Many years ago, before there were Xserves, in an attempt to save rack space in our cabinets, we experimented with ripping the guts out of…
Leave a CommentWe have a few servers that are still running from being upgraded from the 10.2 and 10.3 days. Most all are running Tiger server, with…
1 CommentIn our previous adventures with Mac Minis as “blade” servers, I thought we might try installing Ubuntu/Debian on an Intel MacMini and seeing how the…
Leave a CommentServer Monitor is an application that allows you to monitor the health of several Xserves over the network: Sometimes the application gets a bit cranky…
Leave a CommentIn the past couple of months, we’ve started to see the IBM/Hitachi 180 GB drives that came with the Apple Hard drive modules for the…
3 CommentsIt has come to my attention that the thumbscrews on the front panel of Xserves are a very important component of the overall structural integrity…
Leave a CommentOne of our customers runs a system that has a shopping cart system and they like it when a customer upgrades their site to include…
Leave a CommentHere is a list of the basics that every system administrator should implement: Set your Reverse DNS. Don’t leave it empty. Have geographically separated DNS…
Leave a CommentIf you are unfamiliar with the basics of how email messages are sent and what happens with bounces, please read the previous article. This article…
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