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XenServer: Unable to find partition containing kernel
One of our users at Loeniks managed to break his Debian VM. After upgrading to Debian 6, he tried upgrading his bootloader to Grub 2. XenServer’s paravirtualized bootloader (pygrub) is unable to handl...
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Wordpress MU, NGINX and FastCGI on CentOS
Since my VPS at Loeniks is somewhat limited in resources, and because Apache has no trouble claiming all these resources, I took it upon myself to find an alternative. Lighttpd (lighty) and NGINX (eng...
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Blocking unwanted guests with NGINX
Lately, my sites are being hammered by “unwanted behavior”. Because I feel I cannot blindly trust my WordPress installs to be 100% bug-free, I like to block as many of these unwanted behaviors before...
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Referrer spam (200912-01)
Recently I’ve been noticing a referrer spammer targeting my sites from the IP address 94.102.63.60 . Trying to promote aimtrust and theinvestblog. Since there doesnt seem to be any abuse-related email...
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mkfs.ext3: Wrong medium type while trying to determine filesystem size
Problem While going through a DRBD howto a coworker made, I came across the following problem. On a freshly created DRBD block device, mkfs bails out with the following message: mkfs.ext3 /dev/drbd0 m...
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Optimizing Wordpress and Apache for Speed
Since last November I’ve been busy getting my website noticed by search engines. All the extra modules and tweaking resulted in an indexable, yet slow-loading website. Not a fun thought if you conside...