May 1, 2009 · Server · 2 comments

This Tutorial provides instructions and notes on upgrading Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) server to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty), released on the 23rd April 2009.
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April 19, 2009 · General, Monitoring, Server · 1 comment

LatencyTOP is a Linux* tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the worst latency hiccups.
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April 9, 2009 · Server · 8 comments

Rails is a web development framework written in the Ruby language. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making several assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. It allows you to write less code while accomplishing more than many other languages and frameworks. Longtime Rails developers also report that it makes web application development more fun.
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April 3, 2009 · Server · 5 comments

Introduction

This tutorial will explain how to purchase a VPS hosting package at A2 Hosting , setting up a fresh Ubuntu server installation, and configuring several typical applications such as Apache, MySQL, PHP .

A2hosting provide Ubuntu VPS hosting for very reasonable prices.If you are looking for Ubuntu VPS packages i would suggest a2hosting.If you want to buy your ubuntu VPS you can do from here.Recently we have moved to A2hosting and i am a very happy with their service and support.

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This offer  is for new customers only and it  expires on 04/30/09.
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January 26, 2009 · Package Mgmt, Server · 20 comments

Apt-Cacher-ng is a software package that keeps a cache, on the disk, of Debian/Ubuntu Packages and Release files.When an apt-get like client issues a request for a file, Apt-Cacher intercepts it and if the file is already cached it serves it to the client immediately, otherwise it fetches the file from the Internet, saves it on the cache, and then serves it to the client. This means that several Debian machines can be upgraded but each package need to be downloaded only once.
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