If you are on free plan, you might realize that you can’t upload any files larger than 100MB. This is the limit that cloudflare applies to Free plan. If you are on Enterprise , you might increase this limit to 500MB. Want over 500MB, you might need to ask cloudflare to make an exception. Cloudflare is great, but 100MB is quite small for video upload. What solution could be? – Upgrade to enterprise (oh no, i can’t afford it) – Disable the proxy – you will not benefit from cloudflare any more – Create a new direct url upload that will not go through cloudflareRead More →

Photograph is my hobby, i like photo detail so i use high resolution camera. This ends with a lot of storage. Local storage is not a big deal, but i want to put them on Cloud so i can access it anywhere. I started with ICloud Photos with 200GB plan this is good for about a year then My ICloud is full and i need to upgrade to the next plan. The next plan is 2TB , it will cost 10.99 a month. My 200GB plan is only $2.99. Why there is no such plan like 500GB or 1TB. I started to look for someRead More →

Why things are broken ? It’s simply because of changes. Can we avoid changes? No. Changes could be come from internal or external. Do we know what will be impacted if there is a tiny change? A good system can track about 90% what is related. There are some minor changes that might be never recorded. We can’t avoid change, we know we might miss something, so let minimize the risk. How can we do that? we need a system to monitor our system, if something go wrong, that monitor system will trigger an alert for us and we can take action as soon asRead More →

Let say you have a load balancer with few thousand sites, the load balancer keeps track the response time from the backend server. Your log is saved in Splunk. Now, the application team comes to you and ask the site performance in the last 30 days. You think it’s easy, yes, when you start with last hour , the results come out within a minute. But when you do last 30 days, it’s a such a pain because the data is too large. Since last one hour seems to be OK, why don’t we dump that result data into some other faster database? Since it’sRead More →

Virtualbox supports remote display – it’s like console access. This is helpful if you can’t access the server via normal method like ssh or rdp. i found an issue today that if we turn remote display , after we restarted the VM will crash. My lesson learn: only turn on remote display if you can’t access your VM from normal method, after you fix your issues, turn it off.Read More →

In this article i want to share how i setup the a zero touch deployment using network. Tools use: Windows 2022 Windows ISO Images DHCP server ( Add DHCP role in the server management) MDT – Microsoft deployment tool kit (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install) Windows ADK Windows PE Addons (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install – i suggest we download the version 2004 – if we use the latest, we might have an error in MDT as the latest version doesn’t support x86) WDS – Windows deployment services ( Add WDS role in the server management) i would like to brief some of functionalities of these tools DHCP Server: In order to re-imageRead More →