Backups are one of the least beloved activities in computing. Few people like to do backups, and thus they don’t think about doing them. My motto is, if you think you should do a backup, it’s already too late. And lately I am thinking about doing a backup, so I’m concerned. In order to implement [...]
I am working now for an insurance company with more than 25.000 employees and with offices in such exotic places as South-America, Hog Kong or Bahrain. Of course, such important company has a complicated and intricate structure. Companies that depend of companies that are controlled by companies that are dominated by a big holding that [...]
Update 15 Jan 2007: I have updated the post as I’ve found a better implementation of this script. Indeed, in my previous solution I was running the server as root. Now I’ve simplified the script, eliminated the wrapper and I’m running my servers as a different user (www-data in my case). In the constant search [...]
What a better day to improve a network that the last day of the year? Indeed, it’s what I’ve done with mine. Today, I’ve installed a reverse-load-balancer proxy in my network, Nginx. I was feeling the need for a reverse proxy since the beginning. Once the VServer installed and with the freedom to create as [...]
I am not a good designer. I am actually not a bad designer neither. I am simply not a designer. But still… there’s some things I can hardly see without smiling. Take a look at this page. It is a famous and important french company. It’s a nice site. A nice menu, well organized… Now [...]
I have discussed in a previous post how my server was organized. I will discuss now how my Django web pages are organized. When I started Django, I realized that one of the power of this framework was it’s flexibility. You could put your site on-line in 1000 different ways. But this flexibility (and lack [...]
After much reading, thinking, testing and looping all over again, I am arriving to an architecture that seems to work pretty well for my needs. Those needs are a personal server to host a few personal and test websites and support the basic needs of a geeky household: mail server, web server, DNS, music server, [...]
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