In part 1 of this 2 part screencast series – We cover the installation of the soon to be released Project FiFo 0.6.0 Version. This is a major release with a ton of new features and some foundational changes to the underlying storage architecture. This is a single zone configuration and not a clustered configuration.(…)
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Awstats and Nginx setup on SmartOS
These days, I am doing a lot of dedicated WordPress VPS sites for clients. I always use SmartOS zones and Nginx wherever possible. Best practice is always to setup Google analytics and Google Webmaster tools to analyse traffic metrics and what is happening from a SEO perspective. I also don’t like to have all my(…)
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(…)
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(…)