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End of Life for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Posted by Juli Z on May 03, 2010
Today, Red Hat announced the 6-month notification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3's end-of-life. The regular life-cycle for RHEL 3 will end October 31, 2010.
Unusual Network Outage Strikes ThePlanet
Posted by Jeff H. on May 03, 2010
Today, 100's of servers are offline due to a network issue at ThePlanet, a major dedicated hosting company delivering more than 40,000 servers.
Easily Find Bad Email Passwords on Plesk
Posted by Jeff H. on April 23, 2010
Bad passwords can be costly. Recently, I had to spend several hours cleaning up a server due to poor end-user passwords used for email accounts. Spammers guessed these passwords and starting flooding the system with email. As soon as one account was fixed, they hit another. So I needed a quick way to find bad passwords. While not exhaustive, this little trick can save you a lot of time.
Want to Keep Server Management Exciting? Client Diversity is Key
Posted by Jeff H. on April 19, 2010
Server management would be a boring job if it were not for our diverse mix of clients. Marketing firms, social networks, SaaS providers, online stores, and others all turn to our team for Linux support. This diversity keeps us on our toes. Every client has unique challenges, and we work with them to assure their IT solutions align with their business concerns. I just wanted to highlight a few of our clients and how we've worked together to let IT work for them.
Why Your Web Developers Should Not Manage Servers
Posted by Jeff H. on April 16, 2010
Ok, I am going to poke my neck out and likely get it chopped off by a PHP guru, but in my experience, web developers make terrible server managers. Leaving your server management tasks to your development team may be convenient but could cost you time and money in the long run.
rackAID’s now has Certified Parallels Engineers for Plesk
Posted by rackAID on April 14, 2010
While at the Parallels 2010 Summit, rackAID technical director, Juli Zurovec, took the new Parallels Certification Exams. Today, the shiny "Parallels Certified Automation Engineer" certificate arrived in the mail.
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