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Gentoo ebuild: Nginx With Support For Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Direktion

Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the … Continue reading →

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ProFTPD with mod_dnsbl as gentoo ebuild

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

Recently we realized that proftpd misses several modules that are available but not included in the standard distribution. Therefore, we created an ebuild. As time was short today, we only included mod_dnsbl. In the near future, we will add more … Continue reading →

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find out if your Apache is really serving the right hosts

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

From time to time it can happen that websites that used to be on your webservers are being moved by your clients without notifying you. Therefore, you will have to search for «zombie websites». I have the following setup: There … Continue reading →

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SFTP only and SSH only OpenSSH system with gentoo

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

Although there are many ways workarounding the lack of security with ye olde FTP, there is a quite handy solution: use OpenSSH via SCP/SFTP to handle the file transfers. There are many solutions which all try to restrict the access … Continue reading →

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