As the title states dd is the Mighty Disk Destroyer, though it can also be your savior. Many Admins fear and even cower when the letters DD are mentioned together; fear not, DD can be your best friend. Being that you are a Linux Professional and or want to be a professional, you are sometimes faced with the need to clone, backup...

So you have decided to get a Cloud Server and you want to install a LAMP stack on your server. Well this is totally possible. All you have to do is issues these few commands. After you issue these commands the server will install: Apache, PHP 5.3, MySQL # Update and then install LAMP stack on a Debian 6 Server aptitude -y...

Have you ever wanted to calculate what the possible bandwidth is for a specific Network Interface? Well if so then you are in luck, I have written a simple BASH script that will do all of the calculations for you, including assisting you with estimating error. You can get this script here: You can also download this script using git. git clone...

NGINX, PHP-FPM, all running on a separated UNIX File system Socket. If this statement is making you wonder why you are here, you are: A. Intrigued B. Google brought you to the wrong Web Site. If you happen to be in category B, I apologize press back and try again. If you are in Category A then keep reading I have some...

Building a KVM Virtual Machine is easy in Ubuntu. Ubuntu has a prepackaged Virtual Machine building application available to it. This application is a script that executes "libvirtd" and allows for the easy creation of virtual machines. In this article I will be describing how to build a VM after the KVM system has been setup and then how to...