So, it’s been a while.
The last time I posted here, we were all arguing about whether “the cloud” was a fad or the future (spoiler: it wasn’t a fad). A lot has changed since April 2013 — in tech, in the world, and for me personally. The blog,
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HOWTO: Upgrade Debian Lenny (5.0) to Debian Squeeze (6.0) on Rackspace Cloud Servers
I recently posted on how to update Debian for vps.net servers and its intricacies, I have since been able to document the process for Rackspace and this guide also works for Virtuozzo or OpenVZ VPS’ where you don’t have direct control over the kernel from your VPS so here goes.
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HOWTO: Upgrade Debian Lenny (5.0) to Debian Squeeze (6.0) on VPS.net
Here are the working upgrade instructions from Lenny to Squeeze (Debian 6) on VPS.net.
Disclaimer: please test this yourself first on a NON PRODUCTION SERVER. this may or may not work with other server providers but is specifically tailored to the VPS.net system,
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Welcome
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Anthony
Anthonywelcome to the first draft of the new site! at this moment in time its the skeleton of hopefully what will grow into a much more polished site and resource for your systems administration needs or otherwise. As such please do watch out for falling (or should i say failing!) admins as this site undergoes the various tweaks to make it look so much better that it does now.
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No Internet…. grrrr but good in a way
Going into our second week without internet in the flat its tedious but in many respects it has also been equally a good thing for me.
Firstly a little background. About a month ago, Sky our broadband provider phoned us up on a sales call to basically get us to transfer our line rental from BT to Sky and save us some money,
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Updating PHP and MySQL on Debian
by Anthony
Anthonyso a client particularly wanted php 5.3 for a project and mysql 5.1 but at the moment needs to operate on smallest possible footprint.
i did some research on it and actually found a useful resource for updated php and mysql resources called Dotdeb – http://dotdeb.org
the idea of this repository is to keep the core lamp stack binaries up to date and keep support for the ease of updating (via apt-get)
so upon taking a look i decided to trial it on my personal vps and with my niggles i rolled it out to the work server i manage along with the client too.
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