We are still looking at hosting providers! We are more than happy with DigitalOcean‘s offering so far but have also just spied ServerGenie – a managed hosting provider based in Oklahoma. The company also now offers fully managed WordPress hosting that’s insanely fast and infinitely scalable.  Plans start at only $20 per month and include …

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This article offers a download of Martin Hoz’s (Checkpoint SE) Ofiller tool and describes basic usage. The package software can be downloaded here: ofiller_v2.4.tgz There is full documentation in the package but a quick look at page 53 of the manual yields the following: odumper -f file [-p file] -o file [-d] [-html] [-v] -f …

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This article describes how to clone a live production linux server to a VM on ESX infrastructure although it is the same process to clone to another physical machine. Prepare the Target Machine Prepare a new server on ESX debian 32 bit machine, same hdd size etc: In the past I’ve always used the DSL …

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“Database migration between Standalone and Management only machines is not supported” The error above is observed when trying to migrate the management from a standalone firewall to a new Smartcenter for distributed architecture and appears to be more of a bug than anything else. Luckily it is easily sorted: 1. Take an export of existing …

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