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Apr/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 3 – Up And Running

Filed Under Infrastructure at 29th April 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 2 looked at the differences of AWS/IaaS to VPS. Part 3 will be looking at the cost after a period of time. Running Report The Amazon Web Services have been running for over 3 months with February running … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 2 – Setup And Install

Filed Under Infrastructure at 11th February 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 1 described the reasoning and setup behind the comparison. In this post I will go through the implementation of AWS and the final comparison of IaaS Vs. VPS Setup EC2 Setting up an EC2 and RDS instance was … Continue reading →

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Jan/13

FreePBX 2.9/2.10 On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux, PBX at 7th January 2013 0:01 by

Overview Here’s an updated guide for installing FreePBX on Ubuntu 12.04. I found a different guide to installing FreePBX against the 12.04 LTS with some minor tweaks. I have opted for installing 2.9.x of FreePBX because the changes in 2.10 … Continue reading →

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Dec/12

IaaS Or VPS Part 1 – Analysis And Intent

Filed Under Infrastructure at 31st December 2012 19:44 by

Overview With the proliferation of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) does it make sense to use Virtual Private Servers (VPS) or even shared / dedicated hardware? Prices for IaaS have been decreasing with competition and VPS industry hasn’t really moved … Continue reading →

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Nov/12

Monitor Services On Ubuntu 12.04 With Monit

Filed Under Linux at 27th November 2012 0:01 by

Overview Monit is a very simple daemon which monitors conditions. Conditions can be defined as anything from a file to mounted drives. Monit can send email alerts, log to syslog and also restart services. Install Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) To … Continue reading →

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Aug/12

Recover MySQL Data From Files

Filed Under Database, Linux at 6th August 2012 0:01 by

Overview The best way to backup and restore from MySQL is using Workbench or mysqldump however this may not be possible if the system is trashed but have HDD data in tact. As a last resort the files can be … Continue reading →

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Dec/11

FreePBX MySQL Caller Lookup Source

Filed Under Linux, PBX at 13th December 2011 0:01 by

Overview One of the reasons I switched to MySQL instead of using the built in phonebook was because the numbers weren’t matching the ones in the internal phonebook. The built in phonebook only allows numbers so international numbers with + … Continue reading →

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Jun/10

Linksys SPA3102 And FreePBX On Ubuntu 10.04

Filed Under Hardware, Linux, PBX at 11th June 2010 0:01 by

Overview I wanted to setup a Private Branch eXchange(PBX) system using Asterisk server at home. As I already had a traditional land line (PSTN or POTS line) I needed something to bridge the computer to the land line. My idea … Continue reading →