Hello, my name is Richard and this is my story.

My career started in Web Development towards the end of 1998 in Brighton, UK and progressed over the years into Relational Databases, working on in-house Content Management Systems and Web Services. The next transition was into Systems & Data Integration which included more Linux Systems Administration (in-house and in-cloud).

I designed Disaster Recovery solutions and automated backup/security policies also server monitoring implementations.

I spent time designing and implementing BigData projects. Things such as MapReduce, Hadoop, HDFS and Amazon Web Services kept me interested those days.

My priorities are all about reducing costs, increasing efficiency and of course the resiliency of information systems using monitoring, consolidation, innovation and where possible virtualization / cloud computing.

And now I’m sharing it with you.

All Post by Richard

Restore Debian Package Config Files

This has happened to me many times, making numerous changes to config files until it’s so broken I don’t know where to start fixing :) Luckily there is a way out of this mess at least with debian packages like this.

$ dpkg -S /etc/vernemq/vernemq.conf
vernemq: /etc/vernemq/vernemq.conf

We have now established Verne is the package name.

Richard Apr 28, 2017

Route Http Traffic Securely Over Ssh

It’s a common dilemma, you want to access your online banking but you are on an insecure wifi network with your trusted mac, what can you do?

Richard Apr 18, 2017

Ssh Connection Broken Pipe

packet_write_wait: Connection to UNKNOWN port 65535: Broken pipe How to fix this annoying ssh connection termination message and stop it happening.

Richard Apr 14, 2017

Automating Route53 Failover S3

Utilising Route 53 DNS Failover with S3 Hosting is a smart idea for website resiliency in a disaster scenario (or temporary platform unavailability!).

Richard Mar 21, 2017

Jekyll Amazon Linux

I wanted to run jekyll on Amazon Linux, it should have been so simple to implement..

Richard Mar 20, 2017