by admin | 13th Apr 2018 | Security, Tips
I’ve been trying to get a new client on board and as part of that I’ve made a list of things that need to get fixed for that business to operate reliably. One of the dangerous things they are doing is running Mail Server on a Mac. This is about to become...
by admin | 4th Apr 2018 | Tips
One common issue for clients is the limited amount of storage available with cPanel based hosting. However it isn’t really a problem if you learn how to manage it properly. This means you need to take action when you get one of those ‘Mailbox quota...
by admin | 11th Mar 2018 | Tips
I typically allocate my Mac VM’s 40GB of drive space which is fine for most normal operations. Unfortunately I recently came across a situation where I needed more space for an existing VM. I knew that ESXi could do this, and I knew that Mac OS can do this, but...
by admin | 4th Feb 2018 | Reviews, Tips
This is just a short note on installing this. It is a very quick process, but it took me way longer than it should have because I misunderstood a couple of things. Why? Pi-Hole is a very lightweight DNS server that you can place on your network. It will ignore calls...
by admin | 2nd Jan 2018 | Tips
I recently had to upgrade a couple of servers running 10.8.5 to High Sierra. And found that it had to be done in stages- you can only go up 2 version of operating system at a time- try 3 and you’re SOL. but 10.8 to 10.13 is 5 versions of upgrade? So how did we...
by admin | 29th Dec 2017 | Tips
I’ve written a number of other articles about ESXi, but I’m trying to deploy a 2013 Mac Pro into my lab and realised I was back to square one because I hadn’t documented the first, baby steps. So here we go- Download the latest .ISO from VMWare. You...
