Server

After a power failure today, my ESXi server didn’t boot. I ran my ESXi installation from an USB-stick and the screen just went to black when trying to boot from it. As my setup is almost default, the easiest fix is just to re-install it from scratch. Getting newest available version of ESXi Look like VMware is still greedy and …

It’s almost time for a new LAN-party event I’m hosting with 20 others. Not all in the crew are as technical, so this time I wanted a game server management, so others could manage the game servers.

Today I installed and tested Fedora Server 23. This version of Fedora comes with cockpit, which are a web-interface for server monitoring. I have mostly used CentOS up to now, but Fedora looks more interesting for the reasons I will mention below. To add my CentOS servers to the Cockpit monitoring, I need to install Cockpit on them as well. Setting up …

Shell script for backing up MySQL database. I am running this on a Centos 7 DB-server with MariaDB, but should work on most OS and MySQL installations. This is only an example, and the script is without any warranty. Create a .sh file Edit the .sh file The basics Delete old backups in folder: Where +3 is number of days. …

This tutorial will guide you through the install of an SMS server on a Windows 2008 R2 server (I have also tested it successfully on W7, W8 and 2012 server).