2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 133: ElasticWallet
Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server.
Plugs
Klara Webinar: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit
News/discussion
We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts
You Should[n’t] Be Using a Smart Plug to Restart Your Router
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We were asked about running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server.
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