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Servers: The Complete Documentation

• This category contains 4 Papers
• The last paper was added on 2007-03-26 (YYYY-MM-DD)

Building a BSD Netboot Server

Published on 2004-09-09, by Mikhail Zakharov, ©Mikhail Zakharov.

When FreeBSD 5.2.1 appeared, the differences in diskless operations from branch 4.x were so great that the handbook needed revising. That correction occurred recently, so the ISO image of the FreeBSD-5.2.1-Release, written on 25.02.2004, included the obsolete version, which applied to FreeBSD-5.1 (at best). Besides, the guide doesn't cover everything; the steps to build the system server-diskless stations are a maze of variants of realizations, technologies, and descriptions of differences between FreeBSD versions.

Building a Linux virtual server

Published on 2005-06-09, by Rohit Girhotra, ©Open Source Technology Group.

With the explosive growth of the Internet, the workload on servers providing Web, email, and media services has increased greatly. More and more sites are being challenged to keep up with the growing demands and are employing several techniques to avoid overloading their servers. Building a scalable server on a cluster of computers is one of the solutions that is being effectively put to use. With such a cluster, the increasing requests can be easily managed by simply adding one or more new servers to the existing cluster as required. In this article we will look at setting up one such scalable, network load-balancing server cluster using a virtual server via the Linux™ Virtual Server Project.

Building a Unix Server

Published on 2004-08-26, by Dru Lavigne, O'Reilly Media, Inc..

Yes, I know. I promised that this article would continue to cover printing and the CUPS utility. But things didn't work out that way and at this point a second printing article wouldn't do the justice that a Unix GUI printing utility deserves. Instead, I found myself spending the last few weeks installing servers for a small startup. As I did, I remembered the myriad details needed to create servers optimized for both performance and security. While it would easily take a book to explain all the details, this article can certainly cover some of the common pitfalls to watch out for and the logical approach necessary to do the job correctly. I'll demonstrate for a FreeBSD system, but the same logic applies to your operating system of choice.

Critical Server Needs and the Linux Kernel

Published on 2004-11-22, by Ibrahim Haddad, ©Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc..

This article provides some examples of features and mechanisms needed in the Linux kernel for server nodes operating in mission-critical environments, such as telecom, where reliability, performance, availability and security are extremely important. Here, we discuss four such features: a cluster communication protocol, support for multiple-FIB, a module to verify digital signatures of binaries at run time and an efficient low-level asynchronous event mechanism. For some of these example features, open-source projects already exist to provide their implementations. For other features, there currently is no open-source project that can implement them. For each of our four examples features, we discuss the feature, its importance, the advantages it provides, its implementation when available and the status of its integration with the Linux kernel.