3rd place in the Teach something, Win something contest goes to Mark Mearns for his SQUID installation script. Mark took 3rd place because of the simplicity he created with this script which will make a great addition in the script…
When installing and running multiple WordPress blogs it is easy to forget the password for one of the accounts used. You are using different login names and passwords for each account now are you? This has happened to me more…
It is time to write a guide for Windows users on how to tunnel your traffic without the need to install any software on your local computer. Say that you are stuck behind a firewall that filters your traffic or…
When you have sensitive data that you need to transmit but want to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt it, use some standard tools to get the job done! When sending sensitive material across the globe, be it via…
This guide was originally written for the Lowendspirit community by Jimmy Chen and he was kind enough to let me repost it here. He only asked me to send some money for Médecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders). Which I…
A popular question when troubleshooting database issues is what version of mySQL is installed and used? You can find this information by running a simple command on the mySQL server. Connect to your MySQL engine with your favorite client, why…
Quick tip of a nice program for your Linux server: logwatch. this handy little program will parse your server logs and send you an email with the important details. To install it on Debian, run this command with sudo…
Guess I’m not the only one who have a lot of unauthorized login attempts via SSH on my Linux servers. With a simple command, you can watch failed or successful login attempts in /var/log/auth.log. #As root or via sudo, type…
cPanel is counted as the most reliable and easiest way to manage your web hosting account. It has many features and allows you to make changes from the user end. Websites which are hosted on the Linux servers will get…
Often when installing a web application or script you need an SMTP server to send email but rarely there is the need to recieve any email and on those occasions it is unnecessary to set up an full blown SMTP…
Introduction This guide describes how to generate and use a private/public key pair to log in to a remote system with SSH using PuTTY. Using key-based SSH logins, you can disable the normal username/password login procedure which means that only…
After reading an article about WordPress security measures it got me wondering how I could see how many login attempts were made on this and other WordPress sites that I run. After a few minutes searching I decided to take…
You can insure yourself against accidentally changing your files using versioning. The technique can be used in many contexts, a good example that we will discuss below is the important configuration files for Linux Systems. Some programs have relatively small…
Testing of new site design is done. Will do an update later tonight and see if everything works live. Excited! While maintenance is running, follow updates on twitter or facebook
Hello readers! Some of you that are frequent readers might wonder what’s going on, why aren’t there any new guides being posted. The answer is a combination of many unfortunate things happening at once. I will however give you some…
