by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jan 5, 2011 | Server Administration
Last week, I had the privilege of migrating accounts and emails from Smartermail5.x off a Windows 2005 server to Smartermail7.x in a Windows 2008 server. I had very little experience with Smartermail and felt challenged, when I was assigned the task. Started the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jan 2, 2011 | Server Administration
It was a great week of celebration and joy for me. All was good, with relatively lower volumes of ticket, and better than average sales. Yet again somehow bad things just don’t wait for season changes. Well, I take it for granted that one should learn from mistakes....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 22, 2010 | cPanel, Server Administration, Server Management
How many times have we seen a server getting hacked and thus being of no use to all its users. Among web-hosts, the most used control panel is WHM/cPanel and there has been numerous incidents where a single account of cPanel server getting hacked has resulted in loss...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 20, 2010 | Magento, Server Management
Django is that dream framework of developers who enjoy the freedom of the dynamically typed, Object Oriented, interoperable, cross platform and readable programming language – Python. Django is for Python, like Rails is for Ruby and Zend or CakePHP for PHP. In...
by admin | Dec 17, 2010 | Server Administration
Bobcares introduces its Live Chat support package this December. This white labeled chat support option, allows you to provide your customers with real-time responses to any queries they may have. This Christmas, Bobcares is also offering a 30% discount on the setup...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 14, 2010 | cPanel, Server Administration
Hot on the heals of the vulnerability announced a few days ago, cPanel have reported another vulnerability in Exim. New RPMs with the patched version of Exim are already available. So even if you ran /scripts/eximup or /scripts/upcp a few days ago, you’ll have...
by admin | Dec 12, 2010 | Server Administration
Mails have already started to circulate in office. Committees being formed to plan and organize events. So there’s definitely a buzz in the air. Yes, its Christmas time again! Flashes of red, white and green are definitely starting to lift everyone’s...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 10, 2010 | cPanel, Server Administration
On 8th December Sergey Kononenko, discovered a vulnerability in the Exim mail server, that could allow hackers to gain control of the host server. Though initially thought to effect only packages for Debian, it appears to be present in all versions. Exim is the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 8, 2010 | MySQL, Server Administration
Most of us are familiar with LAMP, the most popular free/open source solution stack in use today. There is an, not as popular, alternative that database intensive site owners might be interested in: LAIP. While LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP; LAIP swaps...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 4, 2010 | Server Administration
A vulnerability in Linux kernels prior to 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125 allows a local user to cause a denial of service attack on your server. So this is a good time to cross check the level of access you’ve granted to the users on your server. If you’ve...
