Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

voina.org Internet Speed

By | February 9, 2017

The standard connection from UPC Romania with my subscription 200Mbps/6Mbps. Good download crappy upload. I just found out there is a new 500Mbps/25Mbps plan in my city , Cluj-Napoca. I am going to try it asap. I am wondering how will my router cope with that. Linksys E4200 has a tested WAN to LAN Throughput… Read More »

Monitoring Fedora servers with NAGIOS

By | February 15, 2017

This is a description of the installation process of NAGIOS monitoring on two Fedora21 based servers. Choose one server as the main nagios host. Lets call it nas1. Add nagios users , group and add apache as member in the nagios group: # useradd nagios # groupadd nagcmd # usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios #… Read More »

How to backup a NFS resource with Barracuda Yosemite Basic Server

By | February 6, 2015

In a discussion from the Barracuda Yosemite support forum initially talking about the compression (or lack of ) for LTO-4 backup, I obtained the answer to the additional issue of backing up NFS resources across the network. Bellow the required configuration exactly how it was posted by one of the forum moderators Matt Orme.  … Read More »

HP Microserver Gen8 resources

By | February 8, 2015

I am a happy and heavy user of two HP Microserver Gen8 machines. I must quote the best online resources for the Microserver enthusiasts: The amazing German forum thread at www.hardwareluxx.de The long and extensive English forum thread from homeservershow.com The official parts page from HP Always is good to hunt for bargains at Amazon.co.uk.… Read More »