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Security, Using Linux

Rate Limiting SSH with IPTables

by mikho • March 18, 2020 • 5 Comments

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…

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System tools

AXEL – multi-threaded downloads

by mikho • February 28, 2017 • 9 Comments

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…

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lowendspirit.com, Security

VestaCP – Change listening port admin interface (Part 2)

by mikho • December 27, 2016 • 2 Comments
VestaCP

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…

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Database, Windows

Connect to a remote mysql using ssh tunnels

by mikho • November 6, 2015 • 1 Comment
mysql logo

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…

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Security

VestaCP – Change listening port admin interface

by mikho • May 13, 2015 • 6 Comments
VestaCP

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.…

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Networking

IPTables and VestaCP – OUTPUT rules to allow DNS lookups

by mikho • February 20, 2015 • 4 Comments
VestaCP

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…

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Webservers

HTTP Status Codes [cheat sheet]

by mikho • February 15, 2015 • 0 Comments

    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…

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Windows

Test I/O speed on Windows (Linux dd equivalent)

by mikho • December 18, 2014 • 6 Comments
SQLIO.EXE

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…

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Using Linux

Reclaim reserved disk space XEN/KVM/VMWare/Dedicated

by mikho • December 16, 2014 • 0 Comments
Terminal Commands

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…

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Windows

Create bootable USB drives the easy way

by mikho • November 9, 2014 • 2 Comments
Rufus pen drive bootable usb

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…

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Webservers

Manage files with Pyd.io (formerly known as AjaXplorer)

by mikho • November 8, 2014 • 3 Comments
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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…

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Webservers

Easy,Fast,Light Nibbleblog using Lighttpd

by Fahad Ahammed • October 23, 2014 • 3 Comments

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…

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Security

checkrestart – Is your debian secure after an update?

by mikho • September 29, 2014 • 2 Comments

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…

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Webservers

Install Ghost Blog With Lighttpd and Mariadb

by Fahad Ahammed • September 19, 2014 • 22 Comments

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,…

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Webservers

Install PositiveSSL for the VestaCP login page

by mikho • September 8, 2014 • 9 Comments
VestaCP

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…

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