I use dynamic DNS for my home internet connection so that I can access the machines from anywhere on the internet. And I use OpenWRT on my router. Earlier I was using Namecheap for managing DNS but I switched to CloudFlare for performance and security reasons of the website. Unfortunately [...]

If you’d like to access your Linux desktop over the network from anywhere in the world, or just want to share your computer’s resources on the LAN by giving all users accounts on your computer, you can set up a remote desktop server. It is quite easy to do so, [...]

IPFW in FreeBSD has built-in support for NATing and the configuration syntax is same as that of natd. It took me quite some time to figure out how to NAT for jails while ensuring that certain jails can have public IPs. Configure the nat on one of the IP addresses: [...]

One of the servers I run has FreeBSD 10. It hosts a high traffic Magento site. Magento being a very heavy application, requires a dedicated server. The site’s performance is very bad when it is hosted on VPS — or perhaps that depends on provider / needs tuning. Not my [...]

GlusterFS is a clustered file system that can be used when you want to share the content across different machines which can be accomplished by NFS as well. But the difference is, NFS failover is hard. In GlusterFS, you can add two servers known as bricks in Gluster’s terminology on [...]