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I have a web application running on Apache 2.4 that I would like to be password protected for everyone except for my local network. If someone access it from my
FreeBSD Upgrades with ZFS boot environments
FreeBSD has always been my OS of choice but in the past I have always viewed upgrades as one point of failure. What is the upgrade doesn’t go as expected,
MySQL: Working with Date Ranges
At times we have to collect the last 7 or 15 days of data from MySQL. For example to create graphs or stats for the past x amount of days or
VMware: Enable Change Block Tracking (CBT)
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Secure HAProxy with Let’s Encrypt
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MySQL: Search and Replace
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NUT Client for VMWare ESXi
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