Andy’s 90-day weight loss challenge: Day 15
Day 15, Saturday 28th July 2018, start of week 3. Weight loss this week: 2.8lbs (1.3Kg) Weight loss so far: 9.8lbs (4.5Kg) The weight loss continues. I’ve had some cravings and hunger pangs but have […]
Category: Web hosting
Security: Disable direct root SSH login
In the Linux/Unix/*BSD and their various flavours, the “root” user is the most powerful user on the whole system. If anyone gains access to this user, they can literally do anything, including wiping the whole […]
cPanel CSRF security issue
Over the weekend, an announcement was made by security experts that the popular web host control panel, cPanel is vulnerable to CRFS (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks. The attacks can happen when visiting malicious web sites […]
Carrying out actions on multiple files
Chances are you’ve downloaded an archive and extracted it into your web space, then noticed that all of the files are set to world writeable. Some people wouldn’t know any better, but it could be […]
Installing Rootkit Hunter HowTo
We all know how important security is on internet facing machines these days, which means it’s important to know what’s going on on our servers. One of the tools we can use to help audit […]
Migrating MBOX to MAILDIR
While the option to use MAILDIR has been around for nearly two years, cPanel/WHM has only recently made MAILDIR the default. Until v11 (approx, sorry, I can’t remember the exact version number), the default has […]
Updating to PHP5
I’ve been putting off updating PHP my server for ages, but PHP5 has been out for 3 years now, and with version 5.2, is finally stable and reliable enough for mainstream production use. Also, The […]
POP3 and/or IMAP not starting in cPanel
Recently, I found that POP3 and IMAP were failing to start on my backup VPS server, with cPanel/WHM. It’s not a major problem as its main task is to handle backup DNS and mail, but […]