When connecting to your VPS, you should never login as root, in fact, root logins with password authentication should be disabled. Instead you should mainly use a none-root account and elevate your access rights to root only when needed. By…
If you want to be the master of your VPS or dedicated server you must know some basic networking commands to troubleshoot connection issues or to find out more information about your or someone else server. This guide will not…
Here is something I stumbled upon some time ago and did put it on my “To do later when I have more time” list. It’s nothing that will change the world as we know it, but it will give you…
I was about to setup another PPTPd on one a new VPS that I got and i have always used a script that used to be @ http://www.putdispenserhere.com/, but the site was down so after a little investigation (google cache)…
Some may know that you can check the WHMCS license of any company using WHMCS as their billing system by adding: [precode]?licensedebug&forceremote[/precode] to any .php file in the whmcs folder. Example: [precode]announcements.php?licensedebug&forceremote[/precode] If you run this, you will probably see…
Mr. Pinal Dave (a MS SQL master) had an interesting post today on his blog. The question was if it is possible to see if a string is a palindrome or not. This question was asked to him from a…
Following in the footstep of a Solusvm database leak in November 2012, Damian Harouff from IPXcore LLC decided that it was time to make some changes to their database if something like that would happen to them. The Solusvm database…
So, today I decided to make LowEndGuide IPv6 enabled and spent most of my morning troubleshooting why my vps didn’t show my IPv6 addresses. Well, that’s not what this post is about. Now I will show you how to enable…
With the amount of SSH brute force attacks, securing SSH is more important than ever. Here are a few methods you can consider to further harden your SSH installation. Default Settings First of all, we look att the default settings…
Even if it is too late when someone else logs in as root on your server, it is good to know that NOW is the time to get working on your security. To setup email notification, login to your server…
