Category: Projects
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Building a XenServer at Home with a Local Repository
I have gone over the process of setting up a XenServer before, but this time there is one major difference. It will be using a local repository instead of using a NAS as an ISO repository. This was a little tricky but not too bad. Once I had XenServer installed and configured, I opened an…
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Migrating our Enterprise Production Environment From ESXi to Xen
When I started developing software at my current workplace, our web app server was running Turnkey Linux on Debian 6 inside a hypervisor running VMware ESXi 4.5; all of these tools were already very obsolete when I joined the development environment, and after over two years, it was time to make some changes. I decided…
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Moving My Phone Number to The Cloud with Google Voice
Recently, I was sitting in a cafe in St Thomas and I was very frustrated to learn that even though I could browse the internet on their fast, free wifi, I was not able to call or text without spending huge amounts of money because I was outside the continental US. This struck me as…
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How I Got a Free $180 Asus RT-AC68U Router
Last year, I switched to T-Mobile; a choice which has come with lots of perks. One of them was that they gave me a free router. This router supports the 802.11ac standard which means it forms very good connections to devices because of new nanotech in the antennas that allow “beam-forming” to focus the energy…
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Installing Debian on a Mac Mini G4
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. Here we are focusing specifically on installing Debian an old G4 Mac Mini. If you are trying to setup Debian in a virtual server inside Windows, check out…
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Setting Up Debian as a Postfix Mail Server
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the point of setting the server up to be able to send emails. If you still need to setup your hypervisor and virtual server…
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Setting up Debian as a LAMP Server
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the point of setting up our LAMP stack on the a new Debian server. If you still need to setup your hypervisor, virtual server…
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Installing Virtualbox and Debian on Windows 10
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the very beginning of setting up the servers. It assumes you are familiar with the game plan from the previous post mentioned above. Once…
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Building a Cloud For Free
This post explains how I am building my own cloud at home. One of my biggest goals is to do this for free, or for as close to free as possible. What will it do? Serve as a complete virtualized development environment for custom dynamic web applications Multimedia server including secure torrent downloader Use lots…