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For god sake man... Backup Everything by Sean Kearney

I had a fun Friday. I woke up at my usual time (6am) and dove into my usual routine. While the wife is in the shower I jumped on the computer and my browsers default home page (www.carknee.com) wasn't coming up. humm. Checked a different site on the same...
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A Simple Web Site Monitor by Sean Kearney

One of my web servers had been having all sorts of problems over the last few months. It turned out to be the RAID controller, but that is another post. Because of the problems we were having I wanted a simple way to get a notification of when the site...
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Defrag your server by Sean Kearney

It seems that my fancy dancy server needs to run defrag every couple days. The site is running a well visited site (and some other not so visited sites) and is creating 300MB Log Files from IIS, as well as user uploaded files, etc... All of this is really...
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Drivers on a Floppy? by Sean Kearney

A little rant here... I purchased a Zonet GigE NIC ( ZEN3301E ) card a couple months back and finally got around to installing it. Installing a NIC shouldn't be too difficult, right? I threw it in, powered up the PC (actually, my backup web server) and...
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Server Configuration: FTP by Sean Kearney

In the spirit of trying to keep writing, I figured I would write about by new found love of FTP. Well that is a bit of an exaggeration, but on my previous box I used the FTP service built into IIS 5. What a nightmare! Don't get me wrong, the service worked...
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Server Configuration: Directories by Sean Kearney

I have been running my own web server for a few years now and like everyone who does this I have my own ways to do things. One of the things I wanted to revisit, before setting the new machine out into the wild, was my typical directory structure. While...
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New Server by Sean Kearney

In my first post, all of an hour ago, I mentioned that a new server was one of the reasons I renewed my interest in blogging. Just to give you an idea of what I was running: It was a "homemade" computer: CPU: Celeron (2GHz maybe?) RAM: Started at 512MB...
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