Desktop drives are significantly less expensive than NAS Drives or Enterprise. Can they be used when building a budget RAID array? They can, however it's important to understand how desktop drives will increase required maintenance, downtime, expense, and risk of data loss. The biggest difference between desktop drives vs NAS drives or Enterprise drives is in how they … [Read more...] about Using Desktop Drives vs NAS Drives vs Enterprise Drives In A RAID Server
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How to generate a random password from commandline
Passwords are the key to security. For obvious reasons, passwords need to be strong, long and secure. Sometimes generating complex and secure passwords can be a bit time taking. … [Read more...] about How to generate a random password from commandline
How to use arping to bind IP in a Linux Server
arping can be a very handy tool when your main task is to migrate IP addresses across servers. When we migrate IP addresses, the switch or the networking device will cache the information and switch the packets to the old server, and thereby keeping the IP in the new server down. … [Read more...] about How to use arping to bind IP in a Linux Server
How to Setup an FTP server using PureFTP
Setting up a PureFTP server is rather easy. I am making it easier. In a CentOS server, follow these steps to install a fully standalone PureFTP server, without PAM authentication. … [Read more...] about How to Setup an FTP server using PureFTP
How to change the primary IP addres of a Linux / cPanel server
Normally in all servers, the outbound connections from a server will be originating from the primary IP of the server. This is the case in a cPanel server as well. So if an IP is blacklisted, or blocked, some where we may need to change the primary IP address of the server. If we are changing the network range this is needed. … [Read more...] about How to change the primary IP addres of a Linux / cPanel server