I get a consistent monthly number of Apache visitors on littlesvr.ca, roughly ranging between 10 and 20 thousand. A couple of years ago I put my OPS courses (OPS345 is the most popular) on wiki.littlesvr.ca (same hardware). I forgot to analyze the logs at the end of january, and just did it now for january/february. … Read more

Last year I decided to upgrade my public-facing server. Some history: I bought a Micro-ATX motherboard without looking up the size, I assumed it’s the smallest form factor. It isn’t, the smallest one is Mini-ITX. So the new motherboard didn’t fit in the old case. The new one is massive: I put 64GB of RAM … Read more

I have an “everything” Linux server currently running Slackware 15. Sometimes I need to create users in /etc/passwd for some particular use case, but both my Postfix and Dovecot authenticate against /etc/passwd to grant access. It took a long time to figure out how to get that done. Finally I did it: Postfix Edit /etc/postfix/master.cf; … Read more