Site Map - skip to main content

Hacker Public Radio

Your ideas, projects, opinions - podcasted.

New episodes every weekday Monday through Friday.
This page was generated by The HPR Robot at

hpr2427 :: Server Basics 101

Klaatu endeavours to explain the basics of server administration.

<< First, < Previous, , Latest >>

Hosted by Klaatu on Tuesday, 2017-11-21 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
server, admin, sys admin, linux. 3.
The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr2427

Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format. Play now:

Duration: 00:43:10

general.

Klaatu covers the very very basics of servers: what they are, how to know one when you see one, what one ought to run, and why we have them.

Comments

Subscribe to the comments RSS feed.

Comment #1 posted on 2017-11-22 15:34:38 by Shane Shennan

Thanks! I made a connection!

This is so silly, but I had not recently realized the aptness of the terms server and client. You explained so clearly that a server computer serves a _client_ computer. Thank you!

Comment #2 posted on 2017-11-23 09:09:44 by 0xf10e

Solaris?

Nice start, Klaatu! I'll make sure to point
junior sysadmins to this series!

So was the third option, which isn't really around anymore, Solaris? ^^
Because the OpenSolaris fork illumos is in fact, 6 years after Bryan Cantrill's "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" USENIX talk[0], still around. It's the base for distributions like Joyent's SmartOS and the database appliance Delphix ;)
And upstream for OpenZFS, too!

[0]: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc

Comment #3 posted on 2017-11-24 22:53:25 by Zen_Floater2

OpenBSD user

I've been running servers since before you were born,,, 1975.
And I am enjoying this series. It's good to have a series on these taboo things you know...

Leave Comment

Note to Verbose Commenters
If you can't fit everything you want to say in the comment below then you really should record a response show instead.

Note to Spammers
All comments are moderated. All links are checked by humans. We strip out all html. Feel free to record a show about yourself, or your industry, or any other topic we may find interesting. We also check shows for spam :).

Provide feedback
Your Name/Handle:
Title:
Comment:
Anti Spam Question: What does the letter P in HPR stand for?
Are you a spammer?
Who is the host of this show?
What does HPR mean to you?