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Jonathan Duncan
Operations Engineer
As our resident SmartAlek, Jonathan Duncan is a genius when it comes to "programming and stuff". He has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry specializing in Web/API development, Unix/Linux server administration, and much much more. What do we think of him? We think he's a stellar guy!
All posts by Jonathan Duncan - Operations Engineer
How to setup a tinc VPN
By Jonathan Duncan on October 23, 2015
I was given the task of setting up a tinc VPN so that we could test performance for comparison against other VPN systems. This task took much longer than it should have. For that reason, I am making this post to help me and others remember how to do it again in the future. Installing tinc is straightforward enough. You can download the latest release and build it or install it from your favorite package manager. The configuration for tinc lives in /etc/tinc. The configuration is what seems to be the hard part of getting tinc to work.
Performance testing with Phoronix
By Jonathan Duncan on October 5, 2015
Not every server is made equally. On dedicated servers, the hardware varies widely. On virtual and cloud servers, the resource allocations also vary widely. Some servers are CPU-optimized for maximum computing power. Others focus on having a lot of memory. Some servers are built to have a good balance of all system resources. Hardware aside, we require many differing tasks of our servers. Some applications are processor hungry, some need large amounts of disk space, while others take up a lot of memory.