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<big>'''Welcome to Interpause.com'''</big>
<big>'''Welcome to Interpause.com'''</big>


Interpause is a web and file server that I created for my family and friends to share information and files.  
Interpause is a web and file server that I created for my family and friends to share information and files. - lucky13bbq@interpause.com
 
It appears this webpage is getting a surprising number of hits. What brought you to my site and what would you like to see? Feel free to send me suggestions via email. Thanks!
 
Andrew Phan (andrew.phan@interpause.com)


==== Sponsors ====  
==== Sponsors ====  
* [http://www.vietasie.ca Voyages Vietasie] - Possibly the best travel agency in Montreal (Quebec), if not Canada.
* [http://www.vietasie.ca Voyages Vietasie] - Our recommended travel agency in Montreal (Quebec), Canada.


==== Howtos ====  
==== Howtos ====  
Howtos are mainly for me to document the steps required in case I ever have to re-do them again. Hopefully they will help other system admins out there, but I regret that this is not my primary objective.  
Disclaimer: My Howtos are mainly for me to document the steps required in case I ever have to re-do them again. Hopefully they will help other system admins out there, but I regret that this is not my primary objective.
* [[Howto/20230921 Use a cheap VPS to bypass ISP blocking of port 25 to postfix mail server]]
* [[Howto/20161028 Enable LTE for Nexus 4 running 5.1.1]]
* [[Howto/20130118 Setup Routed Tun OpenVPN server on Ubuntu 12.04]]
* [[Howto/20120923 Repair corrupt MySQL database that won't start]]
* [[Howto/Setup Postfix + dovecot sasl + dovecot imaps + maildir + virtual accounts + mysql + postfixadmin + PositiveSSL certificate + Roundcube on Ubuntu 10.04]]
* [[Howto/Setup Bridged OpenVPN server on Ubuntu 10.04]]
* [[Howto/Setup Bridged OpenVPN server on Ubuntu 10.04]]


==== Details ====
==== Interpause.com History and Details ====
2012-01-12: All services are being migrated onto the Virtualbox virtual machine. As result some services are currently down such as Mail (both smpt and imap), PXE boot, rsyncd, etc. -[[User:Andrew|Andrew]] 02:51, 12 January 2012 (EST)
Interpause.com made its humble beginnings on low-end (i.e. cheap) hardware. It was first brought into this world on a second-hand Dell Optiplex Pentium 3 450 Mhz desktop that cost under 200$ circa 2004.


Interpause.com made its beginnings on low-end (i.e. cheap) hardware. It was first brought into this world on a second-hand Dell Optiplex P3 450 Mhz desktop that cost under 200$ back in 2004, give or take a year (efforts to track down the exact date of purchase have been in vain as receipts are long gone).  
Its first upgrades would occur in 2008, a big year, as it got not one but two significant upgrades: the P3 was retired in favor of a Intel Pentium Dual E2160 @ 1.80Ghz processor, a new 20-bay 4U rackmount case as well as an Adaptec 31605 16-port raid controller.  


Its first upgrades would occur in 2008, a big year, as it got not one but two significant upgrades. Earlier that year, the P3 was retired in favor of a Intel Pentium Dual E2160 @ 1.80Ghz. Then later that year, it received a new 20-bay 4U rackmount case as well as a Adaptec 31605 16-port raid controller.  
The next upgrades would be at the end of 2011/start of 2012 with another two significant upgrades: 1) the retirement of the E2160 in favor of a Intel i5-2400S Processor @ 2.5 Ghz and RAM totaling 8 GB of Dual Channel DDR3 RAM, 2) a software paradigm shift to Proxmox virtualization.


The next upgrades would be at the end of 2011/start of 2012 with another two significant upgrades. First upgrade was hardware with the retirement of the E2160 in favor of a Intel i5-2400S Processor @ 2.5 Ghz and RAM totaling 8 GB of Dual Channel DDR3 RAM. Second upgrade was in terms of software as the server OS and services went through a paradigm shift, running for the first time off a Virtualbox virtual machine (referred to as a Guest OS), rather than directly on the real machine (referred to as the Host OS).
Today, Interpause.com operates over a residential (40Mbps down/60Mbps up) FTTH connection. Using the Proxmox virtualization platform, the latest flavors of Ubuntu LTS are used for the various guest OSes. All services run off the guest OSes and all critical files are protected from hard drive failure thanks to the hardware raid controller and are automatically backed up offsite using rsync for mirroring and duply/duplicity for historical file versioning.


Today, Interpause.com operates over a residential (4 Megabit down/800 kilobit up) fastpath DSL connection. Using the Virtualbox virtualization platform, Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit is used for both the host OS as well as the guest OS. All services run off the guest OS and all files are protected from hard drive failure thanks to the raid controller (RAID 1 for the OS and for certain files synced every hour to an undisclosed offsite location; RAID 6 for all other files).
==== Amazing Software ====
 
Nothing beats free software that works, thank you to all the developers that make such software possible.
==== Interpause Services ====
* Web site hosting and file managing
** Apache with SSL/TLS Encryption
** File Managers - https://www.interpause.com/~filemanagers/
** Azureus HTML WebUI - https://www.interpause.com:6886/
** Mediawiki (and soon Joomla, hopefully by the end of summer 2012)
* E-Mail
** Webmail - https://www.interpause.com/~webmail/ (Roundcube) (currently broken: will be ported to new server shortly)
** Imap server (Courier-imap and Courier-imap-ssl)
** postfixadmin - https://www.interpause.com/~postfixadmin/users/ (currently broken: will be ported to new server shortly)
** Mail Transfer Agent (postfix sasl)
* Database
** MySQL
** PostgreSQL
** phpMyAdmin - https://www.interpause.com/phpmyadmin/
* Misc
** OpenSSH
** Samba
** PXE and TFTP
** VNC
** OpenVPN
** rsync
** Hylafax (soon, hopefully by the end of summer 2012)
 
==== Free Amazing Software ====
There's a lot more, and I'll try to update this list shortly. Nothing beats free software that works, thank you to all you open source developers out there!
* '''Parted Magic''' for its numerous utilities including '''Gparted''' for resizing partitions and '''Clonezilla''' for cloning hard drives
* '''Parted Magic''' for its numerous utilities including '''Gparted''' for resizing partitions and '''Clonezilla''' for cloning hard drives
* '''UNetbootin''' for booting off USB keys instead of CDs
* '''UNetbootin''' for booting off USB keys instead of CDs
* Azureus/'''Vuze''' for making such an amazing bittorrent client
* Azureus/'''Vuze''' for making such an amazing bittorrent client
* '''Memtest86+''' and '''Prime95''' for helping me isolate hardware failures
* '''Memtest86+''' and '''Prime95''' for helping me isolate hardware failures
 
* '''Proxmox VE''' for the incredible bare metal hypervisor virtualization environment.
==== Private Pages ====
* '''Virtualbox''' for an impressive virtualization software package.
* Adult Guest - https://www.interpause.com/~adultguest/
* '''ISPConfig''' for the central dashboard that configures dedicated web, mail and db servers
* Andrew Phan - https://www.interpause.com/~andrew/private
* '''Ubuntu''' for the OS that drives this server.
* Espace - https://www.interpause.com/~espace/
* '''Roundcubemail''' webmail
* MDJ AMABAIE CA - https://www.interpause.com/~mdjamabaie/
* '''Many Others:''' Apache http/https server, Postfix server with Dovecot imaps, OpenSSH, Samba, PXE and TFTP, VNC, OpenVPN, rsync, NFS, MySQL server with phpMyAdmin access, Pydio php filemanager, etc.

Latest revision as of 23:31, 22 September 2023

Welcome to Interpause.com

Interpause is a web and file server that I created for my family and friends to share information and files. - lucky13bbq@interpause.com

Sponsors

Howtos

Disclaimer: My Howtos are mainly for me to document the steps required in case I ever have to re-do them again. Hopefully they will help other system admins out there, but I regret that this is not my primary objective.

Interpause.com History and Details

Interpause.com made its humble beginnings on low-end (i.e. cheap) hardware. It was first brought into this world on a second-hand Dell Optiplex Pentium 3 450 Mhz desktop that cost under 200$ circa 2004.

Its first upgrades would occur in 2008, a big year, as it got not one but two significant upgrades: the P3 was retired in favor of a Intel Pentium Dual E2160 @ 1.80Ghz processor, a new 20-bay 4U rackmount case as well as an Adaptec 31605 16-port raid controller.

The next upgrades would be at the end of 2011/start of 2012 with another two significant upgrades: 1) the retirement of the E2160 in favor of a Intel i5-2400S Processor @ 2.5 Ghz and RAM totaling 8 GB of Dual Channel DDR3 RAM, 2) a software paradigm shift to Proxmox virtualization.

Today, Interpause.com operates over a residential (40Mbps down/60Mbps up) FTTH connection. Using the Proxmox virtualization platform, the latest flavors of Ubuntu LTS are used for the various guest OSes. All services run off the guest OSes and all critical files are protected from hard drive failure thanks to the hardware raid controller and are automatically backed up offsite using rsync for mirroring and duply/duplicity for historical file versioning.

Amazing Software

Nothing beats free software that works, thank you to all the developers that make such software possible.

  • Parted Magic for its numerous utilities including Gparted for resizing partitions and Clonezilla for cloning hard drives
  • UNetbootin for booting off USB keys instead of CDs
  • Azureus/Vuze for making such an amazing bittorrent client
  • Memtest86+ and Prime95 for helping me isolate hardware failures
  • Proxmox VE for the incredible bare metal hypervisor virtualization environment.
  • Virtualbox for an impressive virtualization software package.
  • ISPConfig for the central dashboard that configures dedicated web, mail and db servers
  • Ubuntu for the OS that drives this server.
  • Roundcubemail webmail
  • Many Others: Apache http/https server, Postfix server with Dovecot imaps, OpenSSH, Samba, PXE and TFTP, VNC, OpenVPN, rsync, NFS, MySQL server with phpMyAdmin access, Pydio php filemanager, etc.
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