Wickedly Fast WordPress on SmartOS with Varnish and nginx

Wickedly Fast WordPress on SmartOS with Varnish and nginx

Sometimes using WordPress CMS isn’t exactly a speedy experience, every page that is rendered hogs the CPU as it goes though the thousands of lines of code and performs multiple SQL database queries.  99% of the time, the content is unchanged so it makes a lot more sense to serve that content statically – directly out(…)

FiFo Riak Cluster & LevelDB Database Migration

FiFo Riak Cluster & LevelDB Database Migration

Overview In this screencast we will cover both how to add a secondary fifo zone to the Riak cluster as well as how to migrate your existing sniffle database backend from the legacy HanoiDB to the new LevelDB backend. Going forward, LevelDB is now the recommended format for all Project-FiFo implementations. It is important to(…)

Use Zabbix to Monitor any windows service

Use Zabbix to Monitor any windows service

An overview of how to monitor any Windows service with Zabbix. In this comprehensive screencast guide, we will cover how to monitor specific services on windows and alert and graph on them within Zabbix. This is particularly useful if you have an important application installed on your windows server that has a dependent service that(…)

SmartOS iPXE boot with pfSense

SmartOS iPXE boot with pfSense

TFTP Server Setup iPXE Configuration pfSense DHCP Setup Web Server Configuration PXE Boot in Action In a previous blog post we covered booting a full iso image using gPXE for etherboot. I was asked by some blog readers why, since development of gPXE stopped in 2010, did I not rather use the recommended iPXE boot(…)