Archive for category Networks, Server administration and Security

The closure of The Pirate Bay seems to have done nothing to stem the flow of potentially copyri… ORLY?!!!

As written on slashdot, closing TPB doesn’t seem to change anything good concerning piracy spreading. Instead, the number of sites providing unauthorized materials has been said to have increased of 300%.

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Connect to server with Nautilus – Samba

This is the correspondence between Nautilus dialog fields and url:

smb://domain;user@server/share/folder

As instance, if you want to connect to IUT of Annecy’s ‘winserv’ server using xxx user, and open the xxx folder, just connect to:

smb://iut-acy;xxx@winserv.iut-acy/xxx

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Hosting…

I recently changed servers (actually, the change is not yet finished). I had a Dedibox (for almost a year) and I recently got an extra server: a Gandi virtual dedicated server, to have two servers for 43,05 € (35.87 € (for Dedibox) + 7,18 € (for Gandi)) a month. I had not had any problem with the Dedibox for all the time I had it. The Gandi server was sometimes a bit slow (The risk with numerous virtualization slots in one physical server) but for the price I paid, it was more than enough. Then I decided to take two Kimsufi servers, instead of the Dedibox and Gandi, for a total cost of 47,82 € a month. It took Ovh nearly a week to set them up, but I was happy to see that there were no problems at all but the delay (I heard that Ovh hadn’t a very good reputation, so I was on my guard, even if I wanted to form my own opinion). Now I’m reassured, all is going good, and I pay a little more (4,77 € a month) for servers which offer much better performance (especially in terms of disk space and international peering).

The only one problem with Dedibox is cancellation : you need to send a mail with return receipt to proxad, which costs money and takes time. Overall, I’m satisfied by both Dedibox and Kimsufi, but since Kimsufi are cheaper, my choice’s made.

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