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How to Setup a Simple VPN on a Linux Server

by Mike Mansell July 13, 2011

Virtual Private Networks (VPN’s) allow for users to bridge network connections using the Internet. Such connections and setups are routinely employed by businesses in order to allow employees traveling outside of the office to connect to the same servers and services that users would typically only have access to if they were sitting inside of [...]

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ChunkHost Offering Free VPS Hosting

by Mike Mansell February 18, 2011

In the past I have always recommended VPS’s (Virtual Private Servers) for users who outgrew shared web hosting and needed the control and flexibility of a dedicated server without the overhead or expense. With a VPS server you have complete and total “root” access, and are able to configure web, database, and application services to fit your [...]

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Amazon S3 Review

by Mike Mansell October 20, 2010

For a while now, I have been using a Virtual Private Server to store my personal websites and screenshot uploads. While this has been working well for me, the cost of having such a server only to store and serve mostly-static content has seemed like overkill. While companies like Webair have amazingly reasonable pricing on [...]

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Linux + Webmin: The Perfect Server Combination

by Mike Mansell September 13, 2010

Back in March of this year, I did a tutorial on how to create a Windows-based home server. While I felt that this was an informative post at the time, I knew that there was one major weakness in it; it relied on Windows. Many businesses who operate large-scale servers opt to use (at least [...]

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How To and Review of Firefly Media Server

by Mike Mansell March 17, 2010

The Digital Audio Access Protocol, also known as DAAP, is the proprietary protocol that Apple developed and implemented into iTunes versions 4 and above. This protocol is responsible for the library sharing aspects of iTunes, which allows users within the same local network to stream music from one-another’s computers. Despite its being proprietary and closed-source, [...]

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How To: Set Up a Windows-Based Home Server

by Mike Mansell March 17, 2010

As technology evolves and multi-computer households become more and more popular, the process of sharing information between computers becomes more and more of an issue. For years, businesses and organizations have been using servers to store all of their information centrally. This is great in the sense that it allows for more simplistic collaboration, and [...]

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Opera Announces Opera Unite

by Matt Hodges June 16, 2009

A few days ago, Opera told us to expect something big. Many speculations have come up as to what ‘reinvent the web” could actually mean—and most people scoffed at Opera’s claim. Today, Opera announced Opera Unite. Their nutshell explanation of what Opera Unite actually is states “Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any [...]

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