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Technology, Security, Virtualization and Cloud Computing in the Web Hosting World
- Author: james obaji
- Listed in: Web Hosting Computer Security
- Tags: Security Canada hosting virtualization vps databases
Recent Posts
Script to distribute SSH Keys across many servers
Hello once again! You may remember an earlier post that detailed how to implement SSH Key based authentication. We believe it is important, when administering many (sometimes hundreds or thousands) of servers, to implement a strategy that can allow...
Setup Up Exim with ClamAV and Spamassassin
I decided to post this article on implementing a simple single mail server with anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities. This guide hopefully will help you on your way to configuring a basic mail system on Linux (specifically Debian). Installing and ...
ProFTPD with MySQL Authentication
Since this setup uses one FTP account to create user home directories and upload files, a compromise to this FTP user would cause the attacker to gain access to all FTP user home directories. I guess it just depends on how much you trust the Defaul...
Generate a self-signed SSL Certificate with OpenSSL
Generating a self-signed certificate may be an easy task for the intermediate or senior level admin, however we decided to post this guide for everyone to use, since using the guide as a reference may hopefully be useful to those of you out there...
Manage Nagios with Scripts
Working at many different organisations over the past 10 years, I have been involved in the implementation and maintenance of many different monitoring implementations. These include commercial and open source implementations, such as : - Nagios - IP...
MySQL Replication : Replicating an existing database
I decided to make a revised post detailing the different steps required in order to implement a master / slave replication relationship within two or more MySQL servers....
