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...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 30, 2010 | Server Administration
If you haven’t, you should. You’d be surprised at how different it looks, not to mention the loss of functionality. A research recently conducted by 1&1, one of the largest web hosting companies in the world, shows that 50% of the companies they...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 22, 2010 | MySQL, Server Administration
The MySQL replication team have been hard at work improving the features of MySQL replication. In this part, I’ll be talking about a few more features included in MySQL 5.5 Automatic Relay Log Recovery If this features is enabled, when a Slave recovers from a...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 19, 2010 | MySQL, Server Administration
There have been many advancements in MySQL 5.5, a majority of them have been towards improving performance and scalability. InnoDB is now the default storage engine, which provides higher levels of performance and reliability than MyISAM. InnoDB 1.1 that is, a...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 17, 2010 | Apache, Server Administration
World of web is becoming faster day by day. Webmasters have been making conscious efforts to enhance website speeds even more, now that Google has even page rank linked to website speed. Sticking to efficient coding and adopting best practices has always been the...
