Build automation is a vital tool for devops, sysadmins, and developers. It is nothing but scripting or automating the process of compiling source code into binary. Sysadmins can use build tools to manage and update config files. Following is a list of awesome open source and popular tools associated with automating build processes on Linux […]
In the world of mail servers, there are many software and technologies. Here is a list of 3 of them that you must know. Background Most mail servers made of Mail delivery agent (MDA) and Mail Transfer Agents (MTA). MDA software used to routes e-mail to its destination. You use MDA such as Dovecot, Qpopper, […]
Web performance is nothing but the speed in which web pages are downloaded and displayed on the user’s web browser. Faster website speeds have been shown to increase sales or increase visitor loyalty including user satisfaction. Particularly useful for those use slow internet connections or on mobile phones/tablets. You can increase the speed of page […]
These are full-featured open source software products, free as in beer and speech that I started to use recently. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2013. #1 Replicant – Fully free Android distribution Replicant is entirely free and open source distributions of Android on several devices including both phones and tablets. I […]
Cloning is nothing but the copying of the contents of a server hard disk to a storage medium (another disk) or to an image file. Disk cloning is quite useful in modern data centers for: Full system backup. System recovery. Reboot and restore. Hard drive upgrade. Converting a physical server to virtual machine and more. […]
A software bot is nothing but a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to web services or chat services as a client to perform automated functions. Often, bots are deployed from a server. It runs in background and performer various activities such as giving out information, providing an answer to common questions, […]
Web analytics is nothing but the measuring web traffic. It is not limited to measuring web traffic. It includes: Analysis Data collection Reporting of web data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web pages Google Analytics is the most widely used cloud-based web analytics service. However, your data is locked into Google Eco-system. If you […]
A good backup plan is essential in order to have the ability to recover from Human errors RAID or disk failure File system corruption Data center destruction and more. In this post I’m going to list amazingly awesome open source Backup software for you. What to look for when choosing backup software for an enterprise? […]