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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.

-Andrew Phan (andrew.phan@interpause.com)

Sponsors

• Voyages Vietasie - Our recommended travel agency in Montreal (Quebec), 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/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

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 (10Mbit down/4Mbit up) VDSL 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. All files are protected from hard drive failure thanks to the raid controller and are automatically synced to backup servers offsite.

Interpause Services

• Ajaxplorer php file manager - https://www.interpause.com/filemanagers/
• Azureus HTML WebUI - https://www.interpause.com:6886/
• Roundcubemail webmail - https://www.interpause.com/webmail/
• postfixadmin - https://www.interpause.com/postfixadmin/users/
• MySQL server with phpMyAdmin access - https://www.interpause.com/phpmyadmin/
• Apache http/https server, Postfix server with Dovecot SASL, Dovecot imaps server, OpenSSH, Samba, PXE and TFTP, VNC, OpenVPN, rsync, NFS, Hylafax (soon, hopefully by the end of summer 2012)

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.
• Ubuntu for the OS that drives this server.

Private Pages

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