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Welcome to Interpause.com

Interpause is a web and file server that I created for my family and friends to share information and files.

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

• Voyages Vietasie - Possibly the best travel agency in Montreal (Quebec), if not Canada.

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.

• Howto/Setup Bridged OpenVPN server on Ubuntu 10.04

Details

Interpause runs on an Intel Celeron Processor E3400 @ 2.6 Ghz with 8 GB of Dual Channel DDR3 RAM and operates over a residential (4 Megabit down/800 kilobit up) fastpath DSL connection. Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit is the current Host OS and Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, the current guest OS, and all files are protected from hard drive failure thanks to the Adaptec 31605 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).

News

In the coming months, the server will receive a significant and long overdue upgrade. First, the processor will be upgraded to one that supports hardware virtualization, specifically an Intel Celeron Processor E3400 @ 2.6Ghz. RAM will also be upgraded to single channel 4GB DDR3. Then, to minimize recovery time (ie. downtime) in case of a hardware failure or upgrade, Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit will be installed onto a virtual machine. Finally, all services will be migrated over the the guest OS (ie. the virtual machine) so that the host OS can be upgraded as well, hopefully by the summer of 2012. -Andrew 02:23, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

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)
  • Imap server (Courier-imap and Courier-imap-ssl)
  • postfixadmin - https://www.interpause.com/~postfixadmin/users/
  • 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
• 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

Private Pages

• Adult Guest - https://www.interpause.com/~adultguest/
• Andrew Phan - https://www.interpause.com/~andrew/private
• Espace - https://www.interpause.com/~espace/
• MDJ AMABAIE CA - https://www.interpause.com/~mdjamabaie/