All articles, tagged with “linux”

OpenSSH tips & tricks: config & keys

This short article presents some priceless tips and tricks for OpenSSH. This article targets newbie system administrators in charge of a large server farm.

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Howto: KISS secure virtual hosts (nginx, fastcgi, php, gentoo/bash)

This article introduces Fastcgi and describes how to make a KISS shared server with nginx and openrc and common unix commands.

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Dvorak-jpic

This article contains an optimal keyboard layout for programmers, some configuration files that may be used along with it, and some misc keyboard optimization tips.

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Optimizing LAMP 101, step through tutorial guide

LAMP definition by wikipedia:

LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of open source software: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, principal components to build a general purpose web server.

This article describes basics of benchmarking and configuration optimisation for fairly recent hardware. Most tips fall in the “common sense” category of senior sysadmins.

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