File Servers

New Home Server
Since this was going to be a file server and run many things I opted for upgrading the RAM and HDD and also shoving in a DVD-RW. I ordered a 750GB SATA II Samsung Spin-Point HDD, 4GB Crucial RAM (2 x 2GB) and Optiarc DVD-RW drive from ...

Using Shadow Copy to save the day from the beach.
I checked the file server and someone definitely deleted moved or otherwise did something to our main executive share. The deleted files were already mirrored to the raid mirror and via my xcopy script this morning at 6am. ...

PHP Worst Practices
There are several problems with using the .htaccess file instead. First of all, using these files places server configuration in a publicly accessable directory. This should never be done. It also allows users to potentially implement ...

Insecure Content Ownership
In this instance, the request for the class file specified in the CODE attribute will fail as the class file is not on the code.google.com server (even if it was, we wouldn’t be able to reach it as requests made via the CODE attribute ...

File Conversion backlog getting cleared!
4th April, PST 4:00 AM - We’ve had some problems with our conversion servers during the last 12 hours. As a result, file conversion times have gone up during this period. We have received emails from some users about this problem. ...

Podcastgen 1.0 BETA 4 - UPGRADE!!!
Now Podcastgen should work also in Windows Servers (thanks Hans for the fix). Dowload Podcast Generator Beta4 HERE. How to install Podcast Generator:. 1. Download the latest version of Podcast Generator. 2. Decompress the zip file ...

Moodle Cluster Update
We are using CentOS as the Linux operating system, running without a GUI on both servers. The front end server has Moodle and the file store, and the back end server has MySQL running. Each server has eight gigs of memory, and dual quad ...

How the Music Industry caused the current Bittorrent Explosion
It is important to understand that the original Napster had a centralized infrastructure , all file transfers happened via the coordination of central server. Had the music industry embraced this model, they would likely have had a ...

Terminal Services: Probes Command
In our JXInsight 5.5.2 release we have extended our Terminal Services with a new command, probes that prints the current resource metering for all probes within a remote managed server to either the display or local text file. ...

Better Servers for Small Business
This results in better utiliization of their server hardware as it is not just providing email services but some file and now backup services as well. They don’t need to learn Linux and complicated server administration tasks as we take ...