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Wanted: An Excellent Administrator for Linux Server
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Date Posted:October 27, 2009
Planned Start Date:November 5, 2009
Type:Hourly
Main Category:Administrative Support
Sub Category:Other - Administrative Support
Skills: Linux
MySQL
PHP
more
Estimated Workload:As needed - Less than 10 hrs/week
Estimated Duration:Ongoing / More than 6 months
Last Buyer Activity:November 10, 2009
Candidates: 17 - average $16.35/hr
Interviews: none
 
In Progress
Start Date:November 10, 2009
Hourly Rate:$15.00
Last Date Worked:none
Hired Provider: Robert Sudduth
Hours Worked:0
Offline Hours:0%
Bonuses: none
Refunds: none
Completed
End Date: 
Feedback to Provider: 
Feedback to Buyer: 
 
Preferred Qualifications
English skill:above 3
oDesk Hours:at least 1 hours
Feedback score:above 3
Passed test:Redhat Linux 9.0 General Test
 
Buyer Facts
Member Since:January 26, 2009
Country:Canada (GMT-08)
City: 
Jobs Posted:4
Jobs Filled:1
Jobs Not Yet Filled:1
Current Team size:1
Hours billed, last 30 days:3
Total oDesk Hours:3.50
Feedback Score: -
 

If you can set up and manage all aspects of a Linux server and can complete tasks quickly and efficiently, we have a long-term project for you.

For the first two months, you will work 10-20 hours a month. And, starting in January, 2010, you will get 20-40 hours per month.  (If you can design great websites using all the latest languages such as php, flash, ajax, actionscript, and others, you will have the opportunity to develop websites for us.)

As our server administrator, you will…

1. Create automated systems to check our server response time and to make sure our web server, mail server, dns server, database server, or any other server software we use, is working properly. When an error is detected, the scripts will notify you and us by email.

2.  Inspect our log files for possible intrusion attempts and errors in order to detect potential security threats or server problems.  Discover and remove viruses and worms and make sure our server has the newest security updates.

3.  Ensure our applications perform at the proper level and not taking too much resource in terms of memory and CPU, sending us notifications t by email automatically.

4. Install software such as ffmpeg, filechucker, and others. 

5. Interact with our website development team and handle their questions and requests, such as setting up mySQL and shell and ftp accesses.

6. Develop a method for backing up the websites (2-5) hosted on our server automatically to our local one.

7. Set up a new Linux server (CentOS) (in January, 2010) and migrate the old one to it.  The hosting company will install CentOS. You just have to create the control panel, mySQL, and other configurations.


If you feel you can handle these duties proficiently, please bid on the project. 

In your cover letter, explain why you’re qualified for the job and state your hourly or monthly rate.

To make sure you have read the entire job description and can follow a simple instruction, put the following sentence at the top of your cover letter…

“I have read and understood the entire project.”

If you don’t place this sentence in your cover letter, we will reject you even if you are the best person for the job.

If you’re a potential candidate, we’ll arrange for an interview by November 2, 2009.

Buyer's Assignment History
Provider From/To Job Title Billed Feedback
478978 11/2009 - Present Wanted: An Excellent Administrator for Linux Server $53 (3.50 hrs @ $15.00/hr)

Candidate List
Title Name Initiated By Date
Remote Network Support Engineer- (Windows/Linux/LAMP) Marc S. Provider October 27, 2009
Senior Wed Developer , Hardcore PHP Application Builder, AJAX, jQuery Hitesh J. Provider October 27, 2009
Linux Admin 5 years exp RHCE EC2 Postfix Level 3 support Karan B. Provider October 27, 2009
Web and Application developer using PHP/MySQL/DHTML/JavaScript/AJAX Robert Sudduth Provider October 27, 2009
Fedora/Centos Linux developer, experienced Linux admin. Itamar Reis Peixoto Provider October 27, 2009
Senior Solaris/Linux/Amazon EC2,S3 Expert Jack B. Provider October 27, 2009
ERP, Sharepoint Server, PHP, .Net 3.5,VB,Oracle Forms,SQL,C, C++, ASP Manjit Singh Provider October 27, 2009
RHCE Unix/Linux,Windows System Admin,cPanel,Postfix,plesk,Exim Arun R Nath Provider October 28, 2009
Kyrian - Experienced Linux Expert & PHP/Perl Coder Kev G. Provider October 28, 2009
Software-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PHP, java,Unix,Linux,Solaris,Perl Reddy N Provider October 28, 2009
Admnistrative and Business Support Deborah Bernier Provider October 29, 2009
Perl/Catalyst/DBIC developer, *nix administrator, Shell scripting Oleg Kostyuk Provider October 29, 2009
Data Entry Professional Gurbaksh M. Provider October 29, 2009
Data Entry Professional Gurbaksh M. Provider October 29, 2009
Unix administrator, Web-based solutions, Hosting and CMS installer Sergey B. Provider October 30, 2009
SyAdmin and DBAdmin with CCNA,CCDA,OCA,SCSA,SCJP(Java certified) Rizky Satrio Provider October 30, 2009
Web Server Expert Unisys Systems Provider November 7, 2009

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