by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 12, 2010 | Server Administration
At some point in time we’ve all had to perform a server move. The very thought of which may give many of you a headache. But it doesn’t always have to be that bad. All it takes is careful planning and knowing how to keep you customers informed. In this...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 8, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
Ok, I lied. OpenDS will not help you put the elephant inside the fridge. But why did you want to put that poor creature there, in the first place? No, I’m not going to talk about elephants or fridges. Today, its all about the process of “putting”....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 7, 2010 | Server Administration
Rootkit Hunter(rkhunter) is a Unix tool that scans for rootkits, trojans, backdoors and similar exploits. The tool is released under GPL license, and hence is a free tool. Actually it’s a shell script that performs various checks on the system and detects the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 6, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
A quick analysis on the various hosting industry software, or any software for that matter will show you without any trace of doubt, that user-friendliness is one of the most crucial factors for the life and death of software. For instance, all the control panels are...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 5, 2010 | Server Administration
Webhosts are always looking for ways to serve their sites faster. With a little bit of tweaking and testing, you can get amazing results from Apache, the current leader of the pack. But more often, people are looking for ways to improve the performance of their sites...
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 28, 2010 | Server Management, Technical Support
Every day, many new hosting companies or server administration companies join the race. Some of these succeed, but many fall by the wayside. Others will be able to take-off to a great start, given their ample resources and capital, but will falter along the way. Some...
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...
