Friday, July 30th, 2010

“…we excel in Linux systems administration services….. “

NetBrixs’ offering encompasses all of the necessary services to ensure your advanced Web solutions or enterprise applications are rapidly implemented and properly maintained. NetBrix has certified engineers who provide complete installation, configuration and on-going maintenance of your web-based or enterprise applications. At NetBrix, managed services are our core competency, so that you focus on your applications and web content.

An e-business today is as strong as it’s presence on the web! We have a team of dedicated and smart solutions experts to advise you on the various aspects of setting up your e-presence. And we don’t just advise you on what to use we also set it up and manage it for you.

The following is a partial list of server setups we have successfully managed for clients over the past one year

System/Network Security using various tools such as apf, bfd, chkrootkit, antidos, mod_security, iptables, Snort
Network vulnerability analysis using nessus, nmap,chkrootkit
Good understanding and hands on experience setting up site to site VPN using both software and hardware routers
LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP) server deployment and maintainence.
Messaging system using Postfix, qpopper, pop-before-smtp, pop3s & smtps, Procmail, clamav, mailscanner, spamassasin, openwebmail. Also hmailserver on windows.
Deploying reverse proxy servers, web applications, load balancers using apache, Zeus, Tomcat, Resin and other application servers.
Maintaining remote web servers running Apache+Tomcat or Apache+Resin
Installation of web server log analyzer i.e Webalizer, Awstats, apachetop.
Squid installation and configuration of access control list for CDN setups, also for internal internet connection sharing.
Database systems setup and managed include Oracle8i, PostgreSQL7.4.5/8.0.1, MySQL4.3.1
AdminTools such as linuxconf, vmstat, top, traceroute, ping , Lisa, webmin , redhat-config tools
Configuration of network monitoring tools such as Nagios, Bigbrother, MRTG
Kernel compilation, File system maintenance
Remote installation through nfs, http, ftp
File sharing between Linux and windows through Samba, also setup DC using Samba
FTP, NFS, Automount, DHCP, DNS server installation and maintenance
Backup systems: using tar, cpio
Remote administration and application serving using Terminal Services and VNC
User account administration and maintenance, quota system implementation
Software installation and configuration eg. Wikipaedia, PHPProject, PHPForum, Mambo and many more
Scheduling tasks through cron, at
Protocol analyzers: Ethereal, tcpdump

We provide Systems administration services on the Linux platform(Debian, Fedora, RHEL and all other distros supported) as well as on FreeBSD and Solaris.

Please contact us for all your Systems administration needs. Or leave a comment to ask us if we suppport what you want built!

Shoutcast servers which are running on shared hosts usually get shut down quite frequently by procwatch. While it is important to stay within system limits it is also important to have those servers running till you shift to dedicated hosting
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Keep forgetting how to setup Yum successfully on godaddy servers Here’s sthe sticky just in case I need it again!!!

rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/libxml2-python-2.6.20-1.FC4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/rpm-python-4.4.1-23.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/fedora/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch.rpm
yum update yum

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