For those of you who know me well, you will no doubt be aware of my current obsessive affliction or CNC maker hobby. This all started a while back when I decided to design and build a DIY CNC machine. Armed with no prior building or maker knowledge and only an electric screwdriver and a pair(…)
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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(…)
SmartOS Network boot with PXE
One of the biggest benefits of SmartOS is that it does not require installation on a hard drive. It can be booted off CD, USB device and over the network with PXE boot. In this article we are going to cover setting up a PXE Boot server that will boot our SmartOS Nodes over the network. Using(…)
SmartOS KVM bare metal migration
Lets get going with part 2 of the SmartOS Screencast series. In this Screencast Tutorial we will cover: Migrating of any Bare metal or virtual machine to SmartOS using “netcat” and “dd” Demo of an Ubuntu VM migration from Virtualbox. Using a live Linux system rescue CD in order to boot and use the netcat(…)