https://sigtar.com/tags/config/ Recent content in Config on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +1300 https://sigtar.com/2014/02/08/nginx-setup-as-reverse-proxy/ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +1300 https://sigtar.com/2014/02/08/nginx-setup-as-reverse-proxy/ <p>Previously to take down this wordpress site all you needed to do was hold down F5 for about 20 seconds then the site would take about 5 mins to recover.</p> <p>There were a few factors causing this and quite a few different methods to solving the problem. Wordpress itself is run on php / apache, apache has an evasive mod which can block certain IPs depending on the defined abusive behavior (typical DDOS attack). Since i like to run a few websites behind a single IP i looked at fixing the issue closer to the perimeter&hellip;.</p> https://sigtar.com/2009/07/18/zfs-playing-with-various-configs/ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2009/07/18/zfs-playing-with-various-configs/ <p>If you dont have the disks available to build up a zpool and have a play with zfs you can actually just use files created with the mkfile command&hellip; The commands are exactly the same.</p> <p><strong>mkfile 64m disk1</strong></p> <p><strong>mkfile 64m disk2</strong></p> <p><strong>mkfile 64m disk3</strong></p> <p><strong>mkfile 10m disk4</strong></p> <p><strong>mkfile 100m disk5</strong></p> <p><strong>mkfile 100m disk6</strong></p> <p>Now you can create a zpool using the above files&hellip; (i&rsquo;m using raidz for this setup)</p> <p><strong>zpool create test raidz /fullpath/disk1 /fullpath/disk2 /fullpath/disk3</strong></p>