Ping is the utility used to test the reachability of a host on a network. It is virtually available for all operating systems that have networking capability. We often use ping to know if the host is available or not. It can also be used to monitor when the host becomes available or unavailable. […]
WordPress: How to create Admin users via MySQL commandline
The following blog explains how to create wordpress admin user via MySQL A WordPress user can belong to any of the six pre-defined roles. • Super Admin – Has access to all features including site network administration. • Administrator – Has access to all the administration features within a single site. • […]
Microsoft Exchange Server: Mailbox Databases and Circular Logging
Microsoft Exchange Server is Microsoft’s Email, Calendaring, Contact, Scheduling and Collaboration platform. Originally developed as an email system, Exchange Server has evolved over time and has expanded into a groupware solution with advanced features. It is now a foundational component of Microsoft 365 as a software as a service (SaaS) offering in the Microsoft cloud […]
What happened to Eucalyptus? The Heart of AWS Public Cloud!
Eucalyptus is an open-source platform that implements IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service style cloud computing. As an IaaS product, Eucalyptus allows flexibility in provisioning our own Cloud resources on a needed basis. Eucalyptus also is an acronym Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems. This is the open-source appliance that […]
SCHRODINGER’S BACKUP: And Why You Should Upgrade Your 3-2-1 Backup Rule
If you have not heard of Schrödinger’s cat, It is a thought experiment devised by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. As the experiment goes, if you seal a cat in a box with a vial of poison that can be opened anytime, you won’t know if the cat is alive or dead until […]
