I got the server Dell R710 last week. I tried my best to update all the firmware of the machine. Basically I watched Youtube videos posed by Art of Server. And I watched it before I received the R710. The SAS disk is a clean one. When I first bootContinue Reading
I have a main (primary) router with the Internet connection in the living room. And I have two devices in the basement. How I make them connect to the Internet is a problem. Here I use secondary router wireless connect to the primary router. And two devices wired to connectContinue Reading
It is a test of the speed from CDN Edge servers to the multi-locations. It is very important the signal for the real experience of the users. Let me see how I implement the tests. I created two endpoints on the Azure CDN, on Microsoft CDN and Akamai CDN. IContinue Reading
Every day, hundreds of people have their smartphone hacked, exposing important data like contacts and even credit card details to criminals that prey upon poorly protected phones. Whenever your phone connects to the internet, it is at risk from hacking by data thieves that target phones in particular, as theyContinue Reading
Received the email from Cloudflare. The Cloudflare edge supports the draft version of the IETF QUIC and HTTP/3 standards. You can read more about HTTP/3 (including how to configure clients like Google Chrome and curl to use it) on our blog. Continue Reading
It is a record of how I build an Nginx with Brotli compression and TLS 1.3 support. I use it on my Linode VPS. It is a Nanon type of VPS at Fremont, CA, USA. 1GB RAM, 25GB storage, 1 CPU. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was installed on it.Continue Reading
This post is an online archive of the page (http://www.michaelbrumm.com/spfwindowsdns/) How to Add an SPF Record in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 DNS Step 1: Select and open the domain in which you wish to add the SPF record. Right-click in the record list and select “Other New Records…” from the menu.Continue Reading
540 million data records of Facebook users were compromised after third-party apps and sites stored the data on unsecured servers. The leaked information included comments, likes, reactions, account names, and FB IDs, and some email addresses. The app called At The Pool even stored passwords of 22,000 users in plaintext.Continue Reading
I have some Virtualbox virtual machine on my desktop. Now I have Proxmox VE 5.3-8 installed on a separate machine. So I would like to move the VM to Proxmox. Let me list the existing installation. My Desktop, Windows 10 Pro version 1809. Virtualbox 6.0.4 r128413 Guest VM inside ofContinue Reading
I check the Nginx error log file regularly. I noticed that a lot of attempted accesses to favicon.ico coming from mainland China. They come from different IP addresses and with different User Agents. Each of these IPs is only doing this, sometimes repeatedly. They are just waste my server’s timeContinue Reading