Friday, March 12, 2010

Using Google’s public DNS service as resolvers in your server

December 4, 2009 by admin  
Filed under General

Google recently introduced this service. You can use this service as resolver for your server.
Login to your server as root
Background current resolver settings:
cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.backup

Open the file using vi:
vi /etc/resolv.conf

Remove the current entries by pressing dd
Put the following lines in the file:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Save the file and exit (press ).
You are done!

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Cloud Computing and its benefits

November 11, 2009 by admin  
Filed under General

What is Cloud Computing
Generally, website hosted on a cloud hosting operates on a clustered servers where online operations are not limited to a single server. By handling security, load balance and hardware resources virtually, the website has access to the processing power of a number of servers that are distributed in real time.

According to Wikipedia:
Cloud [...]

Some Billing and Automation Software:: Both for Linux and Windows Platform

October 14, 2009 by littlemaster  
Filed under cPanel

This discussion about some Automation and Billing Software. Reading this article any one can gather necessary knowledge on Automation software. Okay lets go;
AWBS
AWBS – “Advanced Webhost Billing System”
AWBS is a commercial web host billing system, which features a wide range of modules for automated domain name registration, web host account provisioning, and automated payment tracking [...]

Configuring your Firewall for Webmin

August 27, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Webmin

Many operating systems block access to port 10000 by default (this is the default port for webmin interface), as they have a firewall activated as part of the installation process. This may prevent you from logging into http://yourserver:10000/ from another system on your network or over the Internet.
The simplest way to open up port 10000 [...]

Enabling passive ftp in Pure-FTPd

August 2, 2009 by admin  
Filed under cPanel

For users that are behind a firewall it might be required that you enable passive ftp in your ftp server and client.
While enabling passive ftp in your ftp client is simple, doing so in your ftp server configuration files might be a bit tricky if you don’t know what you are doing.
This tutorial will cover [...]