With the recent rise in brute-force attacks against WordPress installations, it’s now my turn to write down a checklist on things to do that will make your installation more secure. There are different levels to secure the installation, you can…
When connecting to your VPS, you should never login as root, in fact, root logins with password authentication should be disabled. Instead you should mainly use a none-root account and elevate your access rights to root only when needed. By…
Since this question surfaces from time to time, here is a short description of the main difference between OpenVZ and KVM. Basicly it is two different ways to offer virtualization, OpenVZ using shared resources and KVM using full virtualization. This…
If you want to be the master of your VPS or dedicated server you must know some basic networking commands to troubleshoot connection issues or to find out more information about your or someone else server. This guide will not…
I got a tip about this firefox plugin the other day and it is one of these “nice to have” plugins. It will show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar, the IP will be red…
