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10 Free Web Hosting Control Panels

May 24, 2010 by  
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Most of the web designers/developers, within time, begin to manage too many websites, build resource-consuming applications and require more than a standard web hosting package. Then it comes to deciding a hosted/ready-to-use platform or own a VPS/dedicated server and host the websites yourself. Both have cons and pros, the first one requires no technical knowledge [...]

Limiting CPU Usages in Linux using cpulimit

January 27, 2010 by  
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You might have already know how to check the CPU usages of any process. However, worried about any process consuming too much CPU? You should know, you can control the CPU usages of any process by CPU limiter. cpulimit is a free software to limit the CPU of any process. Here is the excepts from [...]

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently, Verification failed

October 21, 2009 by  
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Today, I was getting the following error while trying to send email to any account of the server. The mail bounced with the following error messages. This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: test@mydomain.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it [...]

Effective Solutions for 500 error (Premature End of Script Headers)

October 21, 2009 by  
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There may a number of reasons and solutions for it. We listed a few here for your conveniences. File/Directory Permission error: directory is writable by others: (/home/user/public_html/) This could be easily fixed by just changing the permissions of the file/directory in question. You can change the permissions by using the File Manager within cPanel, or [...]

Installing Suhosin by Patching PHP Source

October 21, 2009 by  
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Preparation When you want to install PHP with the Suhosin-Patch you have to first perform some preparation steps. Step 1: Installing the Hardened-PHP Project Signaturekey You should first grab a copy of the Hardened-PHP Project’s Release Signaturekey and import it into your GNU Privacy Guard keychain. (For further information on the usage of gnupg please [...]

Installing Suhosin as PHP Extension in Linux

October 21, 2009 by  
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Unlike the Hardening-Patch for PHP, nearly all of Suhosin´s features are within the extension. Therefore you might want to only install the extension and use a plain unpatched PHP. Depending on the system we might already offer binary packages. You can check our Suhosin Downloads page. In that case you only need to activate the [...]

Secure your Linux Servers

October 19, 2009 by  
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Securing a linux server is a continuous job as new types of exploits are discovered almost everday. Here, we tried to collect a number of quick guides that will help you securing your linux box.However, this guide covers only basic linux server security tips intended for linux learners. I am writing this guide assuming that [...]

Installing and configuring monit to monitor your server(s)

October 18, 2009 by  
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Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. Pre Install Step: yum install openssl* Step 1: Installing monit from Source cd /usr/local/src wget http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/monit-5.0.3.tar.gz tar -zxvf monit-5.0.3.tar.gz cd monit-5.0.3 ./configure –sysconfdir=/etc/monit/ [...]

Hardening/Securing SSHD (Secure SHell Daemon)

October 18, 2009 by  
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A quick guide on how to secure your sshd. Hope it helps. Step 1: First of all we need to make a regular user, since we are disabling direct root login: adduser admin && passwd admin Step 2: Backup your current sshd_config mv /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.bak Step 3: Create a new sshd_config file

DoS Protection via APF, BFD, DDOS and RootKit

October 8, 2009 by  
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Being a web host, your servers are constantly being attacked by hackers by denial-of-service (DoS) and other brute force attacks. There is no foolproof method to stop 100% of all attacks, but there are ways to protect your servers by applying firewall rules, and detecting and banning attacking IPs. This article makes use of the [...]

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