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 need it again and I can not find them anywhere.Continue Reading
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
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 the sepcs. Dell R710 Server 2 CPU： Intel Xeon E5620Continue Reading
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 still some chances it may fail and the server mayContinue Reading
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 v2 @ 2.80GHz, 1 cores Let me check these differenceContinue Reading
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 Support”. An LTS version is released every two years. SoContinue Reading
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 Content server by clicking the Connect/share button in calibre. ThenContinue Reading
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. Only one time setup fee. It also has monthly plan.Continue Reading
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 instead of gzip on my backup script. Here is twoContinue Reading
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 providers. There are 14 locations worldwide, right now. I didContinue Reading
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 a LTS edition. It will be supported in 9 months.Continue Reading