Month: May 2010

Harden PHP5 With Suhosin on Linux

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations. It was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core,…


Upcoming changes in cPanel 11.25.1

Just a heads up peeps… With version 11.25.1, cPanel introduces the Database Mapping feature. This feature lays the groundwork for providing more flexibility in naming databases and database users. In the past, cPanel has always appended an account’s username to any database name or database username created by the account (for example, a database might…


Toto, a Tiny WordPress Killer

From fadeyev.net couple of months ago I migrated UsabilityPost from WordPress to Toto and am really enjoying the switch. Toto is a tiny blogging engine by Alexis Sellier (creator of LESS) that on the face of it appears so simple, and yet is able to do so much. Toto stores all your posts as text…


Storm… The Cloud Supported

http://www.stormondemand.com Dedicated Servers, Powered by Storm Technology Storm Bare Metal provides all the features that you love about Storm Servers like instant server setup, clone, resize, backups and Cloud Attached Firewalls but on your own private dedicated server wholly allocated to you! Storm Bare Metal gives you complete Hardware Transparency so you can specify the…


PCRE PHP cpanel errors

In case you happen to come across this, cPanel released a new EA3 build today around 1PM, which updated the PCRE libs for Apache, PHP, mod_security, etc.., but they forgot to put in UTF8/Unicode support. They caught this shortly after the release and updated the new EA3 build. If you come across any errors with…


Top 20 Nginx WebServer Best Security Practices

From cyberciti.biz Nginx is a lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy. It runs on UNIX, GNU/Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. According to Netcraft, 6% of all domains on the Internet use nginx webserver. Nginx is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K…


Guacamole

From techworld.com.au A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a Web browser, potentially streamlining the requirements for client support and administration. Guacamole is a HTML5 and JavaScript (Ajax) VNC viewer, which makes use of a VNC-to-XML proxy server written in Java. According to its developers, Guacamole is…


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Grub Error code explained

From unixbhaskar.blogspot.com I have had come across lot of article on the web written by some brilliant guys regarding the GRUB, a smart(better then LILO) bootloader.Being an administrator I have had managed many a installation during my one of job assignment with one of big(really big) IT company in their data center. In this article…


Reconstructor – Create your own Debuntu version

Reconstructor is a toolkit for creating custom versions of the GNU/Linux operating system, specifically Debian and Ubuntu. To get started, login. If you don’t have an account Sign Up – it’s free. Overview Reconstructor is a GNU/Linux distribution customization and creation toolkit. It allows for the customization of the Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux distributions. Customizations…