Posts made by antonit

@Dashrender Point taken.

@coliver You're right, it hasn't changed much. Just with businesses virtualizing as much as they can, the amount of hosts that are being used are being increased. That's where I see the financial impact.

The pricing in general. Although I am really fond of the feature set that Microsoft has provided on their latest OS, I don't find it necessary for them to gouge their customers. Just sayin.

Absolutely ridiculous.

@larsen161 Agreed. You might also want to configure S3 to move the data to Glacier after xx number of days and automate the procedure. Not sure if you need access to the data after it's been backed up, but adding replication to another AZ might be worth looking into as well.

I use https://www.wetransfer.com/ myself. I don't need to transfer huge files and when I do, I use a Dropbox link. I got a TB with them, so uploading and sharing is no biggie for me. I must say, though... transfer.sh is pretty cool.

@scottalanmiller I am a Mac user and I find the user experience much more pleasant on a Mac as opposed to any flavour of Linux. I've also run into issues where software or drivers for that matter are just not available or work right. My 2 cents.

@LAH3385 You can also look at Softchoice. That's where I get all my wares from shameless plug

I highly recommend you talk to your TAM that is taking care of your account to suggest a proper offsite backup solution. Using VDP, you could try architecting an offsite solution to look something like this:

Just a thought as VDP has it's limitations.

Sounds like the problem may lie with the job itself. Doing a degree on top of that would be extremely challenging!

I am a Sysadmin as well, and currently going through an ovehaul to prove myself more appealing to the current market. I found the regular route quite stale so I took some online courses and started studying cloud and devops stuff. It's amazing how much traction you can get if you're willing to start at the bottom again. With all that experience and the new on the job experience, I'm sure within a couple of years, you can put yourself in a really good position that you would enjoy

Linux 4.5 was released yesterday with alot of minor but sweet goodies

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.5

@dafyre Yeah, it was pretty intense. It really digs deep to see if you have the knowledge needed. I just did a test on my own accord and was given the following:

Apache Self Assess

101: Baseline Implementation
Installation and Global Configuration

• Install the Apache HTTPD Webserver via the distro's packaging system (yum/apt)
• Ensure that the following modules are installed and enabled:
  • Mod Rewrite
  • Mod SSL
• Configure the server admin email address (globally) [email protected]
• Configure the server so that its signature is displayed on server-generated pages (such as 500 Internal Server Error), and that it also includes the server admin's email address in the signature.
• Enable the server status page at http://localhost/server-statusaccessible only by the host 127.0.0.1
  Users, Groups, and Files
• Create the system group webadmin
• Create the system user don.draper with the following credentials:
  • Password: IXnMe2Fp
  • Home Directory: /home/don.draper
  • Primary Group: don.draper
  • Secondary Group: webadmin
• Create the system user peggy.olson:
  • Password: 3Hx1M8aS
  • Home Directory: /home/peggy.olson
  • Primary Group: peggy.olson
  • Secondary Group: webadmin
• Create the directory /var/www/vhosts, with the following ownership and permissions:
  • User Ownership / Permissions: root / Read, Write, and Execute
  • Group Ownership / Permissions: webadmin / Read, Write, and Execute.
  • Other Permissions: Everyone should have Read, and Execute permissions.
• All future files and directories created in the /var/www/vhosts directory should automatically inherit the same group ownership of webadmin.
  Virtual Hosts
  Configure the web server for the following virtual hosts, and specifications.
  VirtualHost 1
• Server Name: site1.104.239.228.184.xip.io
• Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/site1/htdocs
• Access Log: /var/www/vhosts/site1/logs/access.log
• Error Log: /var/www/vhosts/site1/logs/error.log
• Copy the content of this virtual host from /root/files/site1 to the document root
  Ensure that the proper content is returned when this site is accessed athttp://site1.104.239.228.184.xip.io, and there are no errors in the logs.
  VirtualHost 2
• Server Name: site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io
• The virtual host should also respond to the following aliases:
  • www.site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io
  • web.site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io
• Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/site2/htdocs
• Access Log: /var/www/vhosts/site2/logs/access.log
• Error Log: /var/www/vhosts/site2/logs/error.log
• Copy the content of this virtual host from /root/files/site2 to the document root
• Configure Apache with any necessary PHP modules required for the site
  Ensure that the proper content is returned when this site is accessed athttp://site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io, that the aliases for www and webreturn the proper content, and there are no errors in the logs.
  VirtualHost 3
• Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/site3/htdocs
• Access Log: /var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/access.log for HTTP and/var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/ssl_access.log for HTTPS
• Error Log: /var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/error.log for HTTP and/var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/ssl_error.log for HTTPS
• Copy the content of this virtual host from /root/files/site3 to the document root
• Restrict access to this site with HTTP Basic Auth, with the user namewebadmin and password 4v2JaLuQ
• Configure the document root so that a directory listing is displayed in the browser, rather than an index page.
• Configure this site to respond on both HTTP, and HTTPS standard ports, however all traffic that comes through over HTTP must be redirected to the HTTPS virtual host. Any self-signed certificate will do.
  Ensure that the proper content is returned when this site is accessed athttps://site3.104.239.228.184.xip.io and that the traffic is redirected when accessing http://site3.104.239.228.184.xip.io. No content should be returned without proper authentication as mentioned above, and there are no errors in the logs.

Was given 3 hours to finish, and unfortunately I did not. Looks like I have some studying to do

So glad to live in Canada where we don't have to deal with the complexities of the healthcare system. Almost everything is taken care of.

@scottalanmiller https://trueability.com/

Gonna be participating in a trueability test coming up and was wondering what to expect. Has anyone had any experience with this?

Very nice.

I wouldn't say "blazing", but it got alot faster since I moved away from Bell Right now I am on a 100/10 connection.

I use Dropbox everyday, and have no issues with upload speeds.

Working on a script to deploy an Nginx server and seem to be coming a cross a weird issue where nginx will not restart after configuration. I'm assuming it's not liking the systemctl command as it's the only thing that I can think of.

Good Morning ML! Getting my puppet on this morning so I can finish up some scripting work I've been working on the past few days. It's been so long, I almost forgot how to script And doing it in Ruby doesn't help!