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Skip to the content About About My name is Sebastiano Pilla. I am a software professional who believes that development and operations are two facets of the same job and that every developer should have the knowledge to operate their own applications.
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Creative uses of ALIAS records in PowerDNS
The ALIAS record type was introduced in PowerDNS to have a behavior similar to a CNAME at the zone apex. To borrow the example from the PowerDNS documentation, you can add an ALIAS record at the apex of your example.net zone like this @ IN ALIAS mywebapp.
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Predicting AWS price reductions
I'm working on a disaster-recovery strategy at my day job, and AWS is one of the platforms I'm considering: the thinking is to have some capacity available on AWS, perhaps just a database and a couple of EC2 instances, ready to take some traffic if our ma
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Is AWS right for personal and hobby servers?
If you're like me, you have a number of personal projects and applications that you host somewhere. For example, I host: my own SMTP and IMAP serversDNS serversa web-based RSS readera Jenkins instancevarious WordPress blogsetc. Hosting those projects by m
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CrashPlan Dashboard - Shows the status of your CrashPlan backups
Do you regularly back up your computers? I do, and I use CrashPlan for my backups. It's an excellent service which has saved me multiple times. However, there is a shortcoming: the backup report emails are atrocious. you cannot get more than one report pe
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Startup Scripts for Java-based Services
I've written a lot of scripts to start Java-based applications as services on Linux, and I've come to realize that the most reliable way to do it is to simply take advantage of the daemonizer utility, whether you're using a sysvinit-based platform (like C
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