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 [...]
Pure-ftpd has no direct support to prevent files with certain extensions from being uploaded. But it’s possible to accomplish this goal using a pure-ftp feature. pure-ftpd has a post-upload program that runs after each file is successfully uploaded and can run an external program. Here’s the excerpt from the pure-ftpd manual: NAME pure-uploadscript – Automatically [...]
In this short post, I would like to share a technique that will protect your confidential data even if your backup store were to be compromised. We shall leverage the powerful open source Encryption Filesystem. I’ll go through all steps required to install the software, use it, and finally integrate it with your back up [...]
