I recently needed to have a look at moving some services to a different VPS provider for redundancy so I decided to benchmark my options to compare them. The plan selected was whichever had 16GB of RAM (though Google is 15GB). The selected datacenter was always London (Azure only says… Continue reading
Fail2ban hasn’t been working for me, I still have people running brute force attacks on my Postfix server, so I though I’d rig up something myself. This consists of a bash script that identifies multiple failures and bans them, run on cron every 10 minutes. It checks for both smtp… Continue reading
dmraid is a software raid/fakeraid/onboard raid tool. As far as I can tell, the only error reporting that dmraid does is by hooking into logwatch – which emails me a very long file I don’t often read and I would like to know immediately if my raid array is degraded…. Continue reading
