Since the first time I used internet in 1996, I have been very particular about my privacy online. When Facebook and Gmail became a thing, I totally dropped my guard and just let go. I gave up.
Found a good post on how to use the rescue mode in Hetzner to setup a Logical Volume that spans multiple drives. This plus vsftpd can help setup Terabytes of space for storage as backup. In any case you should not use Hetzner for anything closely resembling a legit online…
rescue
Start by setting up a container/VM with ubuntu 12 LTS
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
Twitter Heron is an alternative to Apache Storm with compatible API as it was developed from Apache Storm. The major difference I found was that Heron opts to get rid of Threads and going with Process based workers. This is surprising and I am not sure the any advantage it…
Finally got a metal storage rack that I will use as Rack space. About US$99. Finally so much space. Comes with removable half panels, just in case. It’s the same sort I have in my storage room. Why did I not think of this earlier!
Save time and money. Go Backblaze. Crashplan sucks, terrible speed and it has not improved in years. They are full of excuses about it though so they are unlikely to address it in any correct way.
I am using both and going to ditch crashplan once subscription expires.
Keep it up Backblaze.
I have been scouring the internet for opinions and alternatives to what Java has to offer in terms of both ORM and non-ORM for database access. Unlike Python, I do not clearly know what is out there for Java. Rails is…
I have been getting familiar with Java a lot more than I had planned to in my career. It so happens I need to develop a standard set of APIs for public consumption and I happened upon Swagger.io which is an API Framework/Guideline. Its…
I have been using du and df with a bit of other bash scripts to gather disk space usage information on my linux servers. I need to clean up disk space often specially when I am reaching 70% usage just to be sure I will really need that next upgrade. On…
du
df
bash
If you read my posts you will realize I am a fan of Linode, have been for years. They are great and reasonable people.
I decided to give DigitalOcean a try since I have heard great things about it.
