by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 14, 2011 | Magento, Server Administration, Server Management
WHD is the world’s largest hosting event. It provides an ideal venue for exchanging experiences and for networking amongst players in the hosting industry. WorldHostingDays 2011 serves as a venue for news and information from the hosting world, for the hosting...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 4, 2011 | cPanel, Server Administration
Of the various support requests I have received recently, a few have been from customers wanting to upgrade OpenSSL on a cPanel server. The reason being the latest PCI compliance tests are reporting a vulnerability in the version of OpenSSL installed on their server....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Feb 25, 2011 | Server Administration
Kohana is the PHP5 framework started as a fork of Codeigniter. When Codeigniter first appeared, it delighted the developers with its elegant user guide and simple and straightforward usage patterns. Codeigniter has only one limitation – that it doesn’t...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Feb 19, 2011 | Server Administration
M86 Security Labs released their Threat Predictions for 2011 report recently. It makes for a short and interesting read. Their No.1 threat is quite scary. They predict that cybercriminals will be releasing malware that uses stolen digital certificates. A lot of...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Feb 14, 2011 | Server Administration
Wouldn’t it be great if you could know the geographical location of people visiting your site/server? You can! GeoIP can be used to get this information and do lots more. There are many ways to use it, but the most preferred way is to use it as an Apache module....
by admin | Feb 7, 2011 | Server Administration
Long time since I wrote something. I had a spamming story left half way through. Let me get to the meat of it right away… The first step in the analysis was ascertaining the volume of e-mails still in queue. I must say Qmail is really good in handling the mail...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jan 25, 2011 | Server Administration
A social networking site is not just a place to socialize with friends by dropping messages, spreading giggles, chatting, sharing videos and photos etc. The arena of social networking can transcend the boundaries of just maintaining good relationship with friends,...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jan 20, 2011 | DDoS, Technical Support
Whether you believe what Julian Assange is doing is right or wrong, you’ll still have to admit that the amount of traffic WikiLeaks is generating is the dream of any web site owner and the dread of every web host. It is estimated to be receiving over 3,000...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jan 17, 2011 | Server Administration
Have you ever dreamed of building a website that interacts well with visitors, without having to hire the expertise of a scripting veteran? Have you ever imagined a User Interface performing well across all the commonly used browsers, that competes with the effects...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jan 10, 2011 | Apache, Nginx, Server Administration
Log files are necessary components of any software. Especially in a web-server like Apache, it can come in very handy to know the statistics of visiting clients, security auditing and checking the errors. Bobcares helps online businesses deliver reliable web services....
