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Date Posted:	December 26, 2007
Planned Start Date:	November 26, 2007
Type:	Hourly
Main Category:	Networking & Information Systems
Sub Category:	Server Administration
Estimated Workload:	Part-time - 10-30 hrs/week
Estimated Duration:	Ongoing / More than 6 months
Last Buyer Activity:	January 7, 2008
Candidates:	1 - average $11.11/hr
Interviews:	none


In Progress

Start Date:	December 26, 2007
Hourly Rate:	$11.11
Last Date Worked:	January 7, 2008
Hired Provider:	Lester F.
Hours Worked:	3
Offline Hours:	13%
Bonuses:	none
Refunds:	none

Completed

End Date:	January 7, 2008
Feedback to Provider:	4.00
Feedback to Buyer:	none

Member Since:	August 20, 2007
Country:	United States (GMT-08)
City:	San Francisco

Jobs Posted:	14
Jobs Filled:	9
Jobs Not Yet Filled:	1

Current Team size:	0
Hours billed, last 30 days:	0
Total oDesk Hours:	209.50
Feedback Score:	5.00 (2)

Feedback from Buyer:

4.0

Skills:		4.0
Quality:		4.0
Availability:		4.0
Deadlines:		4.0
Communication:		3.0
Cooperation:		5.0

Just a short job, but Lester was on top of it while we were working together.

Feedback from Provider:

No feedback given.

Ongoing server administration required for FreeBSD and VMWare Linux servers running FreeBSD 6.1, Fedora Core 7 (Host), Cent OS 5 (guest) and Windows XP Professional (guest).

You will be responsible for maintaining and upgrading software installations including remote management of guest operating systems and deploying VMs to new hardware.

Requirements:

At least 3 years experience as system administrator for FreeBSD and Linux.
Experience managing and optimizing MySQL databases
Experience creating, installing, and deploying VMWare guest operating systems.
Experience maintaining LAMP software systems

All candidates must answer the following questions in order to receive a request for interview:

1) Describe the procedure for efficiently backing up a MySQL database with a script that runs as a cron job.

2) How do you set up load balancing for web servers and tomcat servlets using stateful http connections (each client connects to the same server for the life of the session)?

3) Write a procedure for mounting a remote file system using nfs.

Provider	From/To	Job Title	Billed	Feedback
74874	01/2008 - 07/2008	VMWare Linux Server Administration	$1,420	5.0 Bret Was a great boss. Hoping to work again with him. L Buyer-to-Provider Feedback: 3.2
27791	01/2008 - 01/2008	VMWare Linux Server Administration	$30	No feedback given L Buyer-to-Provider Feedback: 4.0
1217	11/2007 - 01/2008	C# Digital I/O Control Software	$1,804	5.0 It was great to work with Brett on this exciting project. Despite of the technical difficulties he was very supportive and always explained things ... L Buyer-to-Provider Feedback: 3.6
31614	09/2007 - 09/2007	VMWare Linux Server Administration	$137	No feedback given L Buyer-to-Provider Feedback: 2.8

Title	Name	Initiated By	Date
.NET, JAVA, AJAX, SQLSERVER, ORACLE Developer	Lester F.	Buyer	November 26, 2007