How to protect against the Bash Bug (ShellShock)
I will not explain in technical details how yesterday's freshly released Bash Bug exploit works as there are already millions of articles spreadi…
Read ebooks on Linux
If you are an avid online book reader, an essential tool is an epub reader. Check out FBReader . It is one of the best free tools I have used so far…
MySQL with HAProxy for Failover and Load Balancing
As discussed in a previous blog post about different types of MySQL HA architectures , using HAProxy for failing over and load balancing over cluster…
A Comparison of MySQL HA Architectures
I was recently asked to design a new MySQL HA architecture for an internal project which currently runs on a Master-Slave. The acceptable criteria we…
Installing a DigiCert star SSL certificate in AWS Load Balancer
This should be quite a straightforward task, especially since I have been installing countless of HAProxy SSL terminated load balancers. When I was r…
