Advice

Anyone who says management is easy obviously hasn’t done it for very long or they’re not doing their job very well.

There are few things which will rattle systems administrators more than a compromised server.

Although it’s not a glamorous subject for system administrators, backups are necessary for any production environment.

After a discussion amongst coworkers about professional certifications in e-mail signatures yesterday, I decided to throw the question out to Twitter to gather some feedback:

One of the most common questions that I see in my favorite IRC channel is: “How can I secure sshd on my server?

Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: The following post contains only my personal opinions.

Typical configuration for a proxy-type load balancer

Happy New Year!

DISCLAIMER: Okay, technical folks - I’m doing this as a favor to the general community of people that aren’t very technical, but they need to know some tips for ridding themselves of a technical person that is harming their business.