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…
When installing software on your VPS you will end up with both empty files and empty directories, often these are used as placeholders/lock files/socket files for communication. This short guide will give you some examples on how to find those…
When you run any command as root, using sudo, the password is remembered for 15 minutes by default. If you want to change the time that the password is cached, open the terminal (as root) and run: [precode]nano /etc/sudoers [/precode] Search…
Here is something I stumbled upon some time ago and did put it on my “To do later when I have more time” list. It’s nothing that will change the world as we know it, but it will give you…
From all the different VPS providers I have tried I’ve most often only used the default mirrors that are installed when the VPS is provisioned which sometimes is not the closest one. You can and update this to the geographically…
I was about to setup another PPTPd on one a new VPS that I got and i have always used a script that used to be @ http://www.putdispenserhere.com/, but the site was down so after a little investigation (google cache)…
Some may know that you can check the WHMCS license of any company using WHMCS as their billing system by adding: [precode]?licensedebug&forceremote[/precode] to any .php file in the whmcs folder. Example: [precode]announcements.php?licensedebug&forceremote[/precode] If you run this, you will probably see…
