A default installation of FastCGI on cPanel server is dangerously simple. In this post, I’ll go over what it takes to configure FastCGI on a cPanel node properly.
So how does one detect (and eventually prevent) crontab jobs on a server from running every minute? First of all, why would one ever want to control crontab? Long story short, an aggressive cron job can cripple a shared server and affect all users on such paltform. Here’s a script that crawls cron jobs and [...]
Here is a post detailing an interesting setup of Web servers made to go against one another in real time. This could prove to be entertaining for benchmarkers or perhaps decisive for those who need an ultimate killer proof that their favorite Web server can kick some behind.
The attackers are so determined they are asking everybody on the planet to download this program called Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) and launch it against Amazon. In this post, we (UNIXY) will share a flaw in the program that we think can be used to mitigate the attack.
In this post, we are going to share a list of software and configurations ideal for a cPanel shared hosting server.
Update (2011-03-24): In this article. we’re discussing how we leveraged the smart Russian-built Web server Nginx to stop a DDoS attack. We’ve also experimented quite a bit with Varnish, another fine half-Danish half-Norwegian open source software, as a DDoS mitigation tool. It can be made to form the same constellation that we used for Nginx [...]
