Server

SSH

• SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers
• Tips for Remote Unix Work (SSH, screen, and VNC) [1]
• http://www.semicomplete.com/articles/ssh-security/

• http://blog.hypergeometric.com/2012/02/22/ssh-dos-and-donts/

• tmux - terminal multiplexer

SSH keys

• HOWTO: set up ssh keys
• http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html

• http://www.cmdln.org/2008/02/11/restricting-ssh-commands/
  • http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030115.html
  • https://github.com/gabor-udvari/authprogs

Basic key setup:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine
  default identity_file is ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-agent

SCP

• scp -P [port] file.txt user@remotehose:~/file.txt

SSHFS

• Notes on SSHFS

Rsync

• Rsync over alt SSH port: --rsh='ssh -p8023'

Backup

• Backup - Scripts and apps

• rsync - Wikipedia:rsync
  • rdiff-backup

• http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/

• https://github.com/apenwarr/bup

• https://github.com/chmduquesne/sharebox-fs

Provision

• Puppet Labs
  • Puppet Master - Central management daemon.
  • Puppet Agent - Runs on each managed node.
  • Puppet Apply - For local use.
  • http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/tools.html etc.
  • Puppet Wiki: Core Types Cheat Sheet
  • Puppet Wiki: Simple Text edits
  • Ubuntu puppet info
  • AUR: puppet
  • AUR: puppet dashboard

• Chef visual [2]

• Fabric - Python SSH library

Virtualisation

• VirtualBox manual
  • Guest Additions
  • Virtual networking
  • VBoxManage
• Arch Wiki: VirtualBox
• VirtualBox Headless VM

VirtualBox config;

• Enable host Linux modules: vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp
• Enable host-only adapter 'virtualbox0' in VB Preferences > Network if not previously enabled, then select in guest preferences
• https://github.com/milkmiruku/boxbootstrap
• Keep VM names lowercase and no spaces for easier command-line stuff

Provisioning VirtualBoxes for local dev work;

• Vagrant - VirtualBox provisioning with Puppet, etc.
  • Commands
  • Boxes
  • Vagrantfile: config.puppet
  • http://vagrantup.com/docs/provisioners/puppet_server.html
  • http://vagrantup.com/docs/provisioners/puppet.html

vagrant package --vagrantfile Vagrantfile.pkg --include README.txt
  stored in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes
vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
vagrant box remove lucid32
vagrant box list

Filesystem

• http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2012/02/RAID-sucks/

IaaS

• http://nova.openstack.org/

Knowledge management

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management
• http://www.cmdbuild.org/en/progetto/descrizione

Video streaming

• Live WebM video streaming with Flumotion

E-mail

• Ask HN: How do you do your email delivery?
• http://wiki.debian.org/Postfix
• http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html

Anti-spam;

• dspam [3] [4]
• http://www.postfix.org/addon.html

• http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/07/1533224/Ask-Slashdot-Self-Hosted-Gmail-Alternatives
• http://iafonov.github.com/blog/hardcore-email-infrastructure-setup.html

• https://mail.zoho.com

Google Apps

• Google Apps Email Walkthrough

Zoho

• http://www.zoho.com/mail/

Zimbra

• http://www.zimbra.com

• http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.zimbra.com/community/developer_zone.html

• Zimbra Desktop -

"/opt/zimbra/zdesktop/linux/prism/zdclient" |
-webapp "/home/milk/.zdesktop/data/zdesktop.webapp" |
-override "/home/milk/.zdesktop/data/zdesktop.webapp/override.ini" |
-profile "/home/milk/.zdesktop/data/profile"

Hosting

• http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/
• http://blog.maclawran.ca/96882258
• http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/

• http://linode.com
  • http://blog.linode.com/2009/07/14/linode-safe-harbor-certification/

• http://www.ec2instances.info/

GitHub Pages & Jekyll

• https://github.com/features/hosting
  • http://pages.github.com/
  • https://github.com/blog/272-github-pages
• Stackoverflow: What are the limits of Github hosting?

• https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages
• https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/README.textile
  • https://github.com/mojombo/mojombo.github.com
  • https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/sites
• https://github.com/rfelix/jekyll_ext/wiki/extensions
  • https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Liquid-Extensions
  • https://github.com/bhardin/jekyll-seo-script

Google Cloud

• http://cloud.google.com/

• https://github.com/kig/app-engine-demo-static

GoDaddy

• Enabling SSH