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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

2012-01-11: All services are being migrated onto a Virtualbox virtual machine and the host OS will be upgraded as well, to be completed by this weekend. -Andrew 19:15, 11 January 2012 (EST)

Interpause.com now runs on an Intel i5-2400S Processor @ 2.5 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, using the Virtualbox virtualization platform. 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).

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
• 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/