You are most likely using Netfilter, aka IPTables, if you are running a recent Linux distro. Most firewalls supplied with hosting control panels or simple setup scripts fail to take advantage of some of the more advanced features available. A feature…
AXEL – multi-threaded downloads
What is Axel? When you want to download something from the command line you normally use the commands wget or curl. What if you want to accelerate these downloads? I recently found this command: Axel, works the same way but…
VestaCP – Change listening port admin interface (Part 2)
This is a follow up post on my previous article about changing the admin port for VestaCP (found here) For a new project I decided to install VestaCP on a server I have from LittleHappyCloud.net. LHC is a KVM server…
Connect to a remote mysql using ssh tunnels
In a previous article I wrote how to create a SSH tunnel with Putty and use it as a proxy to browse the web. That article can be found here and this article will continue on that track and show you how…
VestaCP – Change listening port admin interface
This will be a quick guide on how to change the listening port in VestaCP. In my test environment I’ve installed VestaCP on a VPS with Debian so this guide will show you how to change the port in that environment.…
IPTables and VestaCP – OUTPUT rules to allow DNS lookups
This week I’ve been wrestling with an issue on the VestaCP test server I have, don’t want to test stuff in production. 🙂 So I somehow noticed that the firewall service was stopped in Vesta which I found odd. Opened…
HTTP Status Codes [cheat sheet]
Someone (sorry, can’t remember where and by who) posted this image which is pretty short, sweet and self-explanatory. For those of us who want’s a bit more information about the different status codes…
Test I/O speed on Windows (Linux dd equivalent)
Introduction One part in testing a VPS is to read and write data to the disk. The other parts are usually the upload/download speed and CPU usage. We have all seen these statistics when reading reviews on providers. Being a part…
Reclaim reserved disk space XEN/KVM/VMWare/Dedicated
Joe Dougherty from SecureDragon.net (great guy running a great company) sent me a tip about this thread over at Lowendtalk.com and asked if I could write something about this “weird trick”. Actually it’s not a wierd trick, it’s a built in security…
Create bootable USB drives the easy way
Last week I took the time to upgrade my old vmware ESXi 4.0 installation at home. It is runnnig on a HP ML110 with 8GB Ram and a three 2TB Western Digital Green disks. It’s been running great for what I…
Manage files with Pyd.io (formerly known as AjaXplorer)
For this guide I will use a VPS with VestaCP installed to make things a bit easier for me. A Control Panel like VestaCP is not needed but you do need to have a working webserver with atleast PHP 5.1…
Easy,Fast,Light Nibbleblog using Lighttpd
Introduction: There are a lot of small vps offered in Lowendtalk and other forums. These are ok to run a blog, normally personal and fair traffic blog. I am going to introduce you to a very light and good blog…
checkrestart – Is your debian secure after an update?
After the heartbleed bug that made everyone upgrade their OpenSSL installations in fear of hackers getting access to login information I noticed that more and more comments with questions like “Did you restart the service after you patched it?”. Even…
Install Ghost Blog With Lighttpd and Mariadb
Introduction: Ghost is a blogging platform which run on nodejs. I have tested this in a Ubuntu-12.04 64bit- 128mb/128mb openvz vps. Ghost requires Node.js 0.10.x (latest stable). Recommended Node.js 0.10.30 & npm 1.4.21. Objective: We will install nodejs, npm, lighttpd,…
Install PositiveSSL for the VestaCP login page
Some of you don’t know this but I run Freecpanelsharedhosting.com as a project for Lowendspirit.com and have a successful cPanel server in Miami, Florida. After talking with Anthony (owner of Inception Hosting) we mutually decided to expand to the Netherlands, this time using…