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All the home lab servers are running 24 hours, 7 days. So power consumption is one of the critical facts of maintenance. Reduce it to save your electrical bill. For my Proxmox VE machine. The hardware specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M...
In the past week, I have been looking for a new solution for my Email services. I tried a lot of VMs from different providers, such as Google, Oracle, Vultr, etc. OK, let me tell the story one by one....
I have the Dell R710 for months. It is perfect to fit my needs. Here are some documents I downloaded before and used as a reference. Now, I upload them to this blog as a backup. Just in case I...
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...
It is my new toy. Got from the Craiglist. A very nice young man put it on the list for sale. He said he replaced it with an R810. I received it last week. Let me put a list of...
Because my old Gitlab is running on a Ubuntu 16.04 server. The latest LTS version of Ubuntu is already 18.04 for more than one year. I was thinking about to directly upgrade the server from 16.04 to 18.04. There are...
Recently I placed an order of a new VPS at Linode. It has a new CPU type. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz, 1 cores Another VPS I bought with Linode from July 2017, has Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680...
Based on the schedule of release, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) will be released on April 26, 2018, the day after tomorrow. Now, my all VPS is running on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. LTS is an abbreviation for “Long Term...
It is a big upgrade. New version serials, starting 3.x. Calibre 3.0 is released on June 16, 2017. Calibre 2.x is starting almost two years ago. What is New in Calibre 3.0? The new Content server You can start the...
I am customer of CloudatCost, which is a VPS service provider at Ontario, Canada. I saw the Ads on twitter, or just someone make a tweet. The most interesting thing is the one time payment and no more recurring invoice....
Previously I used gzip as compression tool to compress the web site files and mysql database. It is still working on my Linode server. I learned something from the compairasion from this post . So I tried to use bzip...
I just ordered a new VPS from Vultr.com. It has All SSD. Maybe the lowest price per memory. Pay $0.007/hr, you get 768MB RAM, 3GHz CPU and 15GB storage. It is about $5/month. And more datacenters than other VPS service...
Ubuntu is always a good desktop Linux distributation in the world. In the past years. more and more are installed as servers. Now I have four VPS are running under ubuntu, from 12.04 to 14.04. Ubuntu 14.10 server is not...
Today, my VPS at Linode has problem. It can not connected for 3 hours. Later, I got a email from Linode, which displayed that my VPS restarted. Newark Connectivity Issues Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:05AM EDT (UTC -4): Many Linodes are...
The router is Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2, flashed with DD-WRT v24-sp2 build 21676. The SSH server settings is under Tab Services, Services. The section is called Secure Shell Select Enable for SSHd, keep the others as is. Then click Save and Apply...