Monthly Archives: May 2012

Amazon – Installing SSL certificates and Errors

Amazon now allows you to manage Listeners, SSL certificates and also the SSL ciphers on an existing Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). These changes can happen via the AWS API or via the AWS web console. You can now add new … Continue reading

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cPanel Email Tips

A couple of things we’ve had to do in the past with regards to mail on a cPanel server have come in very handy. Block An Email Address Sending to Server, Server Wide. There is the option within the cPanel … Continue reading

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We’re Moving Home (/home)

Sometimes you may need to move folders to another disk or partition, due to needing more space or for safety reasons. Most often this is /home folder which is likely to be by default installed on the same partition with … Continue reading

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The Cookie Law

A new law is coming in soon that will make websites get your express permission before storing cookies on your computer. This law, which comes into effect on 26th May, will bring UK firms in line with EU law on … Continue reading

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Reduce the Drupal Entities Steep Learning Curve

If you want to start leveraging the power of Drupal Entities, you may feel a bit overwhelmed when you start to delve in the code. After conducting your own research and reading through a few tutorials, my biggest tip is … Continue reading

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Vim Masterclass Part #3: Abbreviations

This next post in the ‘Vim Masterclass’ will focus on a handy feature of Vim called Abbreviations. Abbreviations are a string of text which when typed are transformed into another string of text. This is done with the :abbr command. … Continue reading

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LocationMatch

Those of us who use apache on a daily basis often have to modify the apache conf file, but I am sure, like myself, we don’t even use half of the directives available. For a full list you can check … Continue reading

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Creepy!

When you next Tweet, think about the information you’re giving away. A new tool has been developed that will gather geolocation related information from your Tweet and image hosting services, pin pointing where you were and presenting the information via … Continue reading

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cPanel Releases EasyApache 3.12

EasyApache 3.12 improves CloudLinux’s modhostinglimits, modmono compatibility on CentOS 4, and mod_ruid2 to suPHP support We are excited to announce the release of EasyApache 3.12. The latest version provides numerous updates. CloudLinux’s mod_hostinglimits has been updated to 0.9-5. This will … Continue reading

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How To Investigate A Linux Server Compromise

Usually the first signs of a server compromise are high processor load. If you have a good monitoring solution in place this should have alerted you. Some common tools that can show the compromised processes running are “top” and “ps”. … Continue reading

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