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Building your own private cloud with XenServer

April 20, 2021 JetBackup, XEN Leave a Comment

Here is an interesting project in which we had to design and build a strong, reliable, redundant, and cost-efficient private cloud. We used XCP-NG as a XenServer-based HyperVisor, and opensource technologies for the VM(s) running inside. BareMetal servers were rented

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Dealing with aggressive bot scanners

September 14, 2020 Apache, Litespeed, Wordpress Leave a Comment

Google is your friend, but sometimes their crawler can be a little bit aggressive consuming resources from your webservers (and sometimes even crashing it). With static sites or at least sites that are using a decent cache, this shouldn’t be

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Litespeed Geo Location Redirect

September 14, 2020 Litespeed Leave a Comment

Here we will use a geolocation DB combined with a Litespeed webserver to redirect visitors on our site to a different version or language of the site based on their location. In this example, we are using Centos 7 and

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JetBackup :: Restore on steroids !

August 21, 2020 JetBackup Leave a Comment

NOTE: Please Use this guide with proper caution. Running this script can cause a spike on your server’s load if not monitored properly. UPDATE: In JetBackup 5, task processing is now service based which allows for simultaneous processing for up

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XENSERVER :: CONNECTING ISCSI SR NETAPP STORAGE

September 04, 2019 iSCSI, XEN Leave a Comment

In this guide we will see how to add an iSCSI NetApp storage into XenServer (version 6.5 and above). Step one –  Xenserver IQN Assuming you already have a NetApp storage created, In order to connect the NetApp Stroage into

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Xen Orchestra :: Backup And Restore Pool Metadata

June 23, 2019 XEN Leave a Comment

Hello! In this guide we will see how to backup and restore pool metadata of a xen servers machines. First, define where to backup, you can backup to your local XOA machine or to a remote location. Backup Pool Metadata

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cPanel :: Safely restore an account after enabling NGiNX

May 23, 2019 cPanel, JetBackup, NGINX Leave a Comment

cPanel now officially supports Nginx as a web server (completely replaces Apache). You can read more about their implementation in their official documentation here. We’ve been playing around with it, and while everything seemed to be working out of the

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CentOS :: Connecting iSCSI device

May 20, 2019 CentOS, iSCSI Leave a Comment

In this guide we will see how to add an iSCSI device into XenServer (version 6.5 and above). In this guide we will use iSCSI device mapped into a FreeNAS box. You can see here how to create iSCSI device

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XenServer :: Connecting iSCSI SR

May 20, 2019 iSCSI, XEN Leave a Comment

In this guide we will see how to add an iSCSI device into XenServer (version 6.5 and above). You can see here how to create iSCSI device using FreeNAS. Note: Server’s IQN is shown in the general tab (server, not

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FreeNAS :: Creating ISCSI Storage

May 20, 2019 iSCSI, XEN Leave a Comment

Note: This guide was written using FreeNAS 11.2 In this guide we will explain how to configure iSCSI device mapping using FreeNAS. This could be very usefull for backups when using XenServer (as SR operation with NFS are very limited

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