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This past weekend, the NYCBUG held a one day conference in downtown Manhattan. This was the fifth NYCBSDCon conference organized by the user group in the past 10 years. The venue was at the same location where NYCBUG holds their monthly meetings. The layout was ideal...
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. Never seen anything like this before? This is what one terabyte of RAM and 80 logical CPU cores looks like! For the curious, here are the specs of this monster: Quad Socket System with Dual 10GbE...
We’ve all seen the damage caused by web traffic spikes. During this year’s Super Bowl, the websites of 13 companies that advertised during the match went down within five minutes of the advert airing. With advertising slots being sold for up to $5,840,000 (£3.6m,...
In the tenth part of our series on programming, we will improve the login process, add more security, and keep spam robots under control. In the previous article we put in place a very crude login system that allowed anyone to login to our CMS and add content. We...
One of the problems a system administrator has when providing services like NFS on a network is that sometimes they are critical to the business and downtime needs to be kept to an absolute minimum. This problem can be solved with tools native to FreeBSD. In this...
In the ninth part of our series on programming, we will add some security to our CMS and refine our interface for adding content. In part 8 of the series, we created the PHP script amendcontentpage.php which allowed the user to add data to any table in the CMS (Figure...
In the following article, I will share with you what I learned when I have converted my servers from Debian to FreeBSD. I will explain the common problems you could have, what you should consider before changing the system and what motivated me for this “adventure”....
FreeBSD users are accustomed to being able to download the entire operating system source code with the ability to compile additional functionality into the kernel and applications. This service had been previously provided by the cvsup and csup programs. Due to the...
In the eighth part of our series on programming, we will refine our Jquery menu and start building a user friendly interface to add content. In the previous article, we implemented a menu using the Jquery library. Looking at menu.inc, we see the menu is “hard coded”...
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. In this article, we will learn the caveats in deploying FreeBSD over XenServer and the advantages over the traditional schema to improve administration, provisioning and delivery times. FreeBSD is...
