System Administration
help with full ffmpeg compilation, iptables configuration, dhcp/pxe/kickstart, cacti, nagios, mrtg, puppet, postfix
Whether you're having trouble compiling an application, want to setup an automated server
deployment system, or need advanced operating system configurations we can help.
We work hand-in-hand with all of our other engineers to identify, resolve, and prevent complex system administration issues.
We can help with:
We work hand-in-hand with all of our other engineers to identify, resolve, and prevent complex system administration issues.
We can help with:
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Datacenter
Equipment Placement, Power Architecture, Wiring, Remote Hands
Operating Systems
Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows
Custom Environments
PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, C/C++, Awk, Sed, Shell scripting (csh, bash)
Stacks and Applications
Ruby on Rails, Drupal, Wordpress, PhpBB, Vbulletin
Cloud
Private Cloud Computing for secure data and applicationsCloud migration and assistance
Servers
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, Glassfish, JBoss, Tomcat, Squid
Databases
MySQL, SQL Server, NonStop SQL
Network, DNS and Firewalling
Advanced DNS configs, Bind, VPN, DjbDns, ipf, ipfw, iptables
Mail
Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim, Dovecot, Courier-imap, Cyrus
Caching
Memcache, Eaccelerator, Sphinx, Lucene, Squid
Storage Technologies
RAID, NAS, LVM, NFS, CIFS/Samba
System Administration and Operations
Nagios, Cacti, Puppet, Rsync, Rdiff, SNMP Debugging and profiling, Oprofile, Gdb
Control Panels and Virtualization
Vmware, Xen, Cpanel, Webmin, Plesk
Version Control
RCS, CVS, SVN
Hardware
Servers, RAID, KVM, Remote Power Management PDU's, Switches, Routers, Load Balancers
Other
Legacy Tandem systems (HW and SW on K-Series servers)
Common Problems
- Slow server provisioning
- Setting up a repository
- Poor NFS performance
- No centralized logging or auditing
- No monitoring or metrics
- No SMTP security
- Sharing data across multiple datacenters
- Optimized configuration files
- Inefficient .htaccess or mod_rewrites
- Inefficient iptables config
- Custom kernel compilation
- Identifying memory or cpu leaks
- Custom builds
- FFmpeg with all codecs
