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Friday, November 14, 2014
The much-anticipated FreeBSD 10.1 has been released into the wild. FreeBSD 10.1 brings a host of new features and improvements, especially over our previous standard 9.1. These include: Improved BHyve: BHyve is FreeBSD’s type-2 native hypervisor which boots almost all FreeBSD and Linux versions (10.1). UEFI boot: Initial support for x64 architecture has been added… Read more »
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
SSL is dead, long live TLS! With today’s widespread announcement of the POODLE attack (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption), it is apparent that SSL 3.0 is dead. The POODLE attack allows a slow but significant leaking of sensitive data which effectively makes the last remaining safe ciphers for SSL insecure. For reference, there is… Read more »
Monday, September 8, 2014
Secure, smart and easy: How off-site backups should be! Off-site backups are a critical part of properly managing colocated or locally hosted servers. Any kind of backup makes good business sense for many reasons — for example, they keep you running after accidentally deleting a file or a server compromise. However, off-site backups are key… Read more »
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
While diagnosing a server that I couldn’t SSH into using my LDAP account I ran into the below errors. I had seen it before but couldn’t remember what caused it: Jul 30 22:12:57 serverhost sshd[2195]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Version;Remote: 172.17.22.10-43231;Protocol: 2.0;Client: OpenSSH_5.8p2 FreeBSD-20110503 Jul 30 22:12:57 serverhost sshd[2195]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Kex;Remote: 172.17.22.10-43231;Enc: aes128-ctr;MAC: hmac-md5;Comp: none [preauth]… Read more »
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The FreeBSD team has been hard at work for some time on pkgng, the successor to the soon-to-be deprecated pkg_* tools, and after extensive testing and internal use we can say it was definitely worth the wait. The pkgng system brings together the best of both worlds: binary distribution while retaining the ability to custom… Read more »
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Do internal servers really need to be monitored, maintained and updated like a public facing Internet server? There are two aspects to this question, the first being maintenance and monitoring, and the second being internal server security (which is closely related to maintenance in that updates fix security issues). Internal Server Maintenance An internal (or… Read more »
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
A-Team Systems is proud to announce the availability of Release 3 of it’s FreeBSD Cluster system which is now ready on our imaging servers for client deployment. We have also upgraded all client Release 2 clusters to take advantage of the new features which include: ATPC / A-Team Physical Console After much testing we’ve deployed… Read more »
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
A-Team Systems announces the inclusion of three excellent new features to all Maintenance and Monitoring plans: Continuous web malware scanning which ensures sites aren’t compromised from a variety of threats including: Obfuscated JavaScript injections Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Website Defacements Hidden & Malicious iFrames PHP Mailers Phishing Attempts Malicious Redirects Backdoors (e.g., C99, R57, Webshells)… Read more »
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Update November 14th, 2016: This is an old article but my recommendation to hack the NFS file still stand even given how inexpensive small SSDs are. An SSD ZIL still delivers low performance with ESXi/NFS unfortunately. We have have a dual SSD ZIL setup on this file server, and without the NFS hack we still… Read more »
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
More affordable than ever with more features, services and peace of mind! A-Team Systems proudly announces it’s updated monitoring and maintenance plan pricing. Among the improvements all plans now include best effort monitoring at a minimum, gain peace of mind while managing costs! We’ve also increased the services we include as part of the ServerCare… Read more »
