Email. As much as we depend on it, it was never designed to be a 100% reliable communications medium. And with the rise of spam…
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Building, installing and maintaining servers and their components.
Question to my Apple Authorized dealer that I just ordered Leopard Server from to install on an Xserve G4: > can you find out for…
1 CommentEvery time we setup a server for a client, we always specify, at the minimum, mirrored drive pairs for boot and for data. How those…
Leave a CommentSo, we’ve recently purchased a Xserve G5 so that we can upgrade the hardware that our mail server runs on from a Dual G4 Xserve.…
Leave a CommentAn email exchange I had with a very smart colleague regarding how one defines “Reliability”, specifically in relation to Active Directory, of which I admit…
Leave a CommentA client of ours is moving his servers to a new colo soon and like us, uses QuickDNS from Men and Mice to manage his…
Leave a CommentA followup to my article that generated a lot of traffic and comment. Point of clarification: the Minis in this system are only doing one…
3 CommentsA really good client of ours has been colocating with us since late 2003. They’ve grown their web application from running on a Xserve 1.0Ghz…
15 CommentsFor some reason, for a long while now net-snmp which the snmpd agent on OS X is based on has been broken in several aspects.…
Leave a CommentWe manage a lot of different servers, mostly web application servers running PHP and MySQL. The physical layout of these systems, due the hardware involved,…
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