You’ve enabled mod_deflate either via apxs as a module, or by recompiling httpd as a whole, but alas, no compression.
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Category Archives: Sysadmin
TECH: Running multiple instances of cgminer on Linux
One may have software, hardware or configuration issues which require multiple instances of cgminer to share the USB bus.
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TECH NOTES: Building mod_security with libxml2
You’d like to add mod_security to your custom apache+mod_php build. The package requires a recent version of libxml2 which must be installed in parallel. Once compiled, httpd is unable to start as a result of missing symbols.
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AWS: RDS: MySQL Limitations
MySQL on RDS has its pros and cons. Only your organization can decide if the solution meets your needs. Migrating from a traditonal MySQL database to RDS may not be a simple task.
AWS: VPC NAT
Believe it or not, VPC does not provide native NAT functionality. Hopefully, someday, we’ll get a NAT equivalent to IGW. Until then, NAT functionality is implemented through an EC2 NAT instance, usually running Linux.
AWS: Naming UNIX instances
Problem
Generating meaningful hostnames without human intervention.
HOWTO: Migrating from XEN to VMware
I wrote a document about migrating RHEL/CentOS xen hosts to VMware .
I hope this helps someone. PDF.