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Bringing your linode home with you

Posted Wed, 11/26/2008 - 17:46 by Justin Ellison

Linode is, in my opinion, the best webhost out there. I recently switched this site from Wordpress to Drupal. In preparation for this switch, I wanted to be able to start with a clean slate - wipe the O/S and all, and install Drupal on top of that. Since I'm a sysadmin, I hate downtime! Read on to learn how I made my Linode portable.

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VirtualBox 2.0 Quick Impressions

Posted Wed, 09/10/2008 - 22:03 by Justin Ellison

I'm not new to the virtualization scene, but I'm no expert either -- I've been using VMWare Workstation since 1.0, VMWare Server since 1.0, and Xen since around 2.0. Well, I needed a Windows XP install on my laptop, and decided it would be a good time to see how VirtualBox compared. VirtualBox 2.0 was just released (changelog), so I went with the bleeding edge. Read on for my quick review of Virtualbox 2.0.

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Linode Review

Posted Fri, 08/01/2008 - 08:17 by Justin Ellison

I recently switched from Aplus.net shared Unix hosting to Linode Xen-based VPS hosting. Follow the jump to read my reviews of both.

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Per-subnet routing with Solaris 10 non-global zones

Posted Thu, 05/08/2008 - 08:20 by Justin Ellison

I had the chance to finally tinker with Solaris 10 zones the other day. They are impressive - very easy to setup! One of my biggest gripes about Solaris is that they've fallen way behind in the area of advanced IP routing. If you want to do things like policy routing in Solaris, you have to install ipfilter, which is no easy task. There is no alternative to iproute2 in Linux. Read after the jump to find a quick hack to setup proper routing for non-global zones on multiple subnets.

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