When I was thinking about using Ghost [http://ghost.org], I did read the installations guide [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost#quick-start-install] and then I just closed the browser window. I didn't wanted to install npm [http://www.npmjs.com/], yet another package manager, and just hack [http:…
Exactly 3 years after I moved [https://devlog.cyconet.org/2013/01/04/new-blogging-engine/] on from Wordpress [http://wordpress.org] to Octopress [http://octopress.org] I thought it's time for something new. Some of you might have noticed that I've not much blogged in the past.…
Today early in the morning my monitoring system notified me about unusual high outgoing traffic on my hosting platform. I traced the problem down the webserver which is also hosting this abandoned website. Looking into this with iptraf [http://iptraf.seul.org/] revealed that this traffic is coming only from…
Three months ago version 2.0 of Monitoring Plugins [https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/] was released. Since then many changes [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/compare/v2.0...master] were integrated. You can find a quick overview in the upstream NEWS [https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/blob/master/NEWS]. Now it&…
For an actual project we decided to use Redis [http://redis.io/] for some reasons. As there is availability a critical part, we discovered that Redis Sentinel [http://redis.io/topics/sentinel] can monitor Redis and handle an automatic master failover to a available slave. Setting up the Redis replication…
You may wonder why the old good nagios-plugins [https://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-plugins] are not up to date in Debian [https://www.debian.org/intro/about] unstable [https://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/] and testing [https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/]. Since the people behind and maintaining the plugins…
It seems to be a great time for monitoring solutions. Some of you may have noticed that Icinga [http://icinga.org] has released [https://www.icinga.org/2014/06/16/icinga-2-0-has-arrived/] it's first stable version of the completely redeveloped Icinga 2 [https://www.icinga.org/icinga2/] . After several…
As Jan has previously announced [https://debianstuff.dittberner.info/posts/going-to-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2014.html] , the Debian [https://www.debian.org/about/] project is maintaining a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2014 [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2014/], which is also organized by him. This year we will have merchandising at the booth, which is…