Monthly archives: July, 2016

Deploying a Windows VPS on Proxmox VE

Deploying a (modern) Linux/BSD VPS on a Proxmox VE is easy and requires no extra steps, since they have built in VirtIO support since kernel 2.6.25. For Windows its a bit more tricky, we need to use additional drivers, that can be obtained free of charge and in a neat iso package from here. Upload both your Windows installer and …

MySQL master-master replication on Windows

This post serves as a how to on how to set up MySQL master-master replication. Since I’m doing it on Windows, I wanted to make it as easy as possible, so I will be using a free SQL client, namely SQLyog community edition, that can be downloaded from here. For the MySQL itself the official community edition installer …

Protecting a web directory in Virtualmin

Virtualmin makes it easy to protect websites (or just parts of it) with an email / password combination. The nice thing about it is that you have granular control over which user has access to what. The user doesn’t have to remember a new password, it will simply be his/her old email password. Let’s see how it works! Go to …