Category: Servers
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My Home Server & Lab Setup (Video & Gallery)
It all started with a single ESXi host… This whole thing really started with a single custom built pc I made out of a spare motherboard I had. The intention with that box was to run a few virtual machines to play around with Windows Server and IIS 7, maybe even some Linux. One…
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Quick Fix – WordPress 3.5 No Thumbnails?
The Issue So I just recently noticed after upgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 and updating my servers PHP install that it seemed the process of creating thumbnails had broken. I was trying to create a gallery and getting full size images filling my content boxes. Checking the uploads folder showed there was no thumbnail output at…
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Using PHP to display all Server Variables
Simple PHP Script to dump all server variables This simple PHP script can be a huge help when trouble shooting server variable related issues, like when using load balancers and in this case IIS with ARR. The way I used this script was to check and see if the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO had been set by my…
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Dell CS24-SC Using the on-board Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)& IPMIView (Video)
The Dell CS24-SC and on-board BMC The Dell CS24-SC is a unique piece of server hardware, packed with CPU and RAM but limited on bells and whistles. With no DRAC option available, the only way to remotely manage this server is the built-in Baseboard Management Controller or BMC. Now this isn’t necessarily a bad thing…
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PowerShell – Simple Mass Server Shutdown/Reboot Script with Menu & Status Check (Video)
What is the purpose of this script? This is a simple script that can be used to mass shutdown or reboot any Windows hosts that are in the hosts.txt file. The script is menu driven and allows the user to view the hosts that are in the txt as well as edit it. There is…
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Making bootable USB Drives from ISO Images in Minutes with Rufus (Video)
Rufus – Create bootable USB drives the easy way Ever been stuck in a situation where you didn’t have a CD-ROM available and needed to install an OS? Rufus is a free tool that makes creating bootable USB drives from images incredibly fast and more importantly easy. In just a few minutes you can be…
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IIS 7 Web Farm Basics with ARR, NLB and MySQL (Video)
Web Farming with IIS IIS 7 has proven to be a solid web server that can be easy to manage yet powerful at the same time. In this post I wanted to show how easy it can be to set up a redundant load balanced scalable server farm using IIS 7 using Application Request Routing.…
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Umbraco 6 – Stuck at “Connecting to Database…” 5% Complete when using IIS 7.5 & MySQL (5.5)
My first entry into ASP.NET Recently I built myself a nice IIS farm using a Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII server along with VMWare ESXi. Once I got the farm all configured properly and working well, I figured I would take some time to play around with ASP.NET as I have never touched it even after…
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Quick and Easy backup for VMWare ESXi 5.1 using Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5
Veeam Backup and Replication The guys over at Veeam have been hard at work turning out some of the best software out there software for supporting your virtual machine infrastructure. They have received countless awards in the VMWare and Hyper-V realms. Today I will be using Veeam Backup Free Edition, this is also the replacement…
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VMWare ESXi 5.1 Install and Basic Configuration, Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII (Video)
VMWare ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor VMWare ESXi 5.1 is a fantastic hyper-visor it’s lightweight, reliable, efficient, Linux based and on top of all of that free. Not only that but ESXi is also capable of running a myriad of different operating systems from Windows to Linux to BSD/Unix and so on, making it perfect for a…
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