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I'm very excited to be speaking at CLL20 in May about Thanos for long term Prometheus metric storage.

28 December 2019
2 min read

Thoughts on my new quest for a new personal and professional challenge.

1 June 2019
3 min read

Whilst giving this site a general tidy up recently, I found a couple of old articles published on the Journal.

3 August 2018
8 min read

WHM changed the way it handles backups in 11.38.

4 May 2014
1 min read

The `monlist` command against NTP servers is being used to launch DDOS attacks.

1 May 2014
2 min read

Sometimes you want to connect to a different set of upstream nodes from an NGINX load balancer.

18 April 2014
3 min read

If you use the internet, it's probably a good idea to reset your passwords. Don't say you haven't been warned.

9 April 2014
4 min read

So you have your document schema sorted but your application is throwing in mixed types on an indexed field. Not the end of the world, but your indexes are performing sub optimally.

16 July 2013
3 min read

Using NGINX as a load balancer can be great. Monitoring upload progress to feed back to your user doesn't come out the box.

31 December 2012
2 min read

When adding users to ESXi 4.1 you can sometimes get the error "User name or password has an invalid format".

24 July 2012
2 min read

Great for sharing files. Great for sharing bash profiles. Great for sharing SSH keys. Great for the NSA.

6 July 2012
2 min read

You love to write tools for your systems, your external is Server Density and you write in PHP. Oh Hai.

29 November 2011
4 min read

You never want to do it, you should never need to, but sweet mary when you have to, beware of hangs.

2 November 2011
1 min read

Use MongoDB to find a regex term inside field values.

26 September 2011
1 min read

You're forking about with PHP - way to go! Then it spawns itself because of a bad dev script and you need to kill it in a jiffy.

29 August 2011
2 min read

Your shiny new SSL needs to operate on specific ports. How do you check you've installed correctly?

29 August 2011
2 min read

Some things really shouldn't need notes. Adding the PHP MongoDB extension on MAMP does.

18 August 2011
5 min read

The recent riots across the UK propped up news websites with many tuning in online. No one wants to know about the Arts?

16 August 2011
2 min read

You like to backup. It make syou feel warm inside when your head hits the pillow. Until you find crap littered in your dirs.

16 February 2010
3 min read