For this guide I will use a VPS with VestaCP installed to make things a bit easier for me. A Control Panel like VestaCP is not needed but you do need to have a working webserver with atleast PHP 5.1…
After the heartbleed bug that made everyone upgrade their OpenSSL installations in fear of hackers getting access to login information I noticed that more and more comments with questions like “Did you restart the service after you patched it?”. Even…
Some of you don’t know this but I run Freecpanelsharedhosting.com as a project for Lowendspirit.com and have a successful cPanel server in Miami, Florida. After talking with Anthony (owner of Inception Hosting) we mutually decided to expand to the Netherlands, this time using…
Security by obscurity is a known term in the world of computers and one way to make it more troublesome for people trying to bruteforce your VPS is to change the Port that ssh listens to, follow these simple steps…
Like every VPS addict it is quite normal to forget which version of an operating system you are running especially if it is a server that you haven’t logged onto for a long time. In other cases, you may simply be…
VestaCP is another control panel for your VPS , It’s lightweight and user friendly to handle. Minimum requirements are CPU: 768Mhz Ram: 512M HDD: 20Gb OS: RHEL/CentOS 5,6 Features in VestaCP Web Server DNS server Database Server Mail Server FTP Server…
ownCloud is a simple tool to manage your data on your VPS. We all have used Dropbox , Box or Mediafire to store and share our data with our friends, family and with our colleagues. But they all have storage…
MySQLTuner is a script that will assess MySQL performance and recommend steps to maximize performance. To install and run MySQLTuner, log in to your VPS as the root user and follow these steps (for CentOS): Download MySQLTuner:
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Introduction Nginx comes with a nifty module that allows us to allow or deny access to directories served by the webserver. The module is named ngx_http_access_module to allow or deny access to IP address. The syntax can look as follows:…
Introduction With the latest Java updates the security settings has been set at a higher level by default and there are many websites that now experience problems with some older Java applets that no longer works. This is a common…
