by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 3, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
April 29 was pretty big day for all of us who make our living in the net. We all had the great privilege to see the arch-rivals in the industry, Microsoft and Apple, both of them supporting the same cause. Perhaps they called it in their own ways, but I call it...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 30, 2010 | Server Administration
Ever heard of a situation where a security expert/data-center asks to re-install the OS of a server for security reasons? That sounds like(and in fact is) a drastic situation, and it does happen. The risk of living with a server that was once compromised is very high....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 26, 2010 | Server Administration, VPN, WordPress
Auditing your servers should be a part of your basic security policy. Part of that audit is collecting information. The more information you have about your servers the better. So over the coming weeks we’ll look at simple and small programs that can help you...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 24, 2010 | FTP, Server Administration, VPN, WordPress
All Webhosts go through a lot of trouble securing their servers. Monitoring the server, setting up a firewall, creating multiple backups etc. Unfortunately, all this hard word can be undone by a vulnerability in a site hosted on this server. If its a shared hosting...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 23, 2010 | Server Administration
GlassFish is an open-source, freely available, Java EE (called J2EE formerly) application server. Like all Java EE-compliant application servers, GlassFish provides the necessary libraries to develop and deploy Java applications compliant with Java EE specifications....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 18, 2010 | Server Administration, VMware
Sometimes, one is just not enough. When you’ve got one server with rocketing performance, you could very well make the maximum utilization of it. Obviously, I’m talking about Server Virtualization. We’ve had quite a lot of products out there in the...
