About Nikolay Nikolov

Autobiogaphy

My name is Nikolay Dimitrov Nikolov.
I was born on December 31, 1983 in Dobrich.
I am happily married and I am the father of two princesses – Anna and Borisa ! 🙂

Education

I graduated from primary school in PR Slaveykov High School, then I went to study for a Doctor at the “Ivan Vazov” School of Natural Sciences.

After graduating I graduated from the Higher Technological College of Dobrudja, but I did not finish it.

I have completed the 4 courses of Cisco CCNA in Dobrich

Personal Skills – Linux

Since 2003 I have been working with linux.

My first look grabbed Red Hat 7.3 which I used for OS on my stationary computer then.

Over the years I went through Slackware (I used it for a long time), then I discovered the benefits of debian and migrated entirely to it.

At present, 90% of my servers are debian, and the other 10% are CentOS and Ubuntu.

The main function of my servers is the following:

1. VMware ESXi
2. Mail server (postfix,dovecot,amavis,clamav,postfixadmin)
3. Nagios,cacti,smokeping (monitoring tools)
4. NTP server for Bulgaria – 0.bg.pool.ntp.org (87.97.157.120)
5. VPN (OpenVPN)
6. BIND (name server for 100 domains)
7. Web hosting server with ISPConfig (nginx,mysql,php,postfix,dovecot)
8. Beta server (designed to test the new ones ‘beta’ products – php,nginx,varnish,openvz)
9. 4 server for virtualization with LXC
10. 2 Proxmox servers – anna.root.bg, borisa.root.bg
11. 2 MySQL servers (galera cluster)
12. IRC server – irc.linkbg.com
13. Cache server (varnish,memcached)
14. FreeNAS Storage and backup server (rsync,samba,pureftp)
15. pfSense Firewall server (internet router)
16. HAproxy – load balancer
17. Git server (gitlab)
18. Puppetmaster сървър
19. FreeBSD web сървър
20. Nextcloud server
21. 4 Raspberry PI – online cameras and SOT
22. 2 OpenWRT routers
23. UniFi controllers, switches and ap’s

Personal skills – everything else

• Design, construction, network management
• Virtualization – VMware, KVM, OpenVZ, LXC, Docker
• Maintenance of computer systems (windows,linux)
• Security systems – paradox,magellan,ip100/ip150
• Building web sites through management systems (CMS)
• SEO (search engines start to love your site – it comes out in front of you)
• RAID arrays – 3ware / mdadm
• Installing, Configuring and Optimizing cPanel / WHM Servers