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DSBL Defunct
Posted by Jeff H. on March 10, 2009
The DSBL real-time blacklist was shutdown almost a year ago. However, their nameservers continued to answer requests until yesterday.
How To Determine CentOS or Red Hat Version
Posted by Jeff H. on March 10, 2009
Versions. Versions. Versions. Understanding versioning for Linux systems is not as easy as one may expect. The numerous Linux distributions combined with differing practices by control panel vendors produces dizzying array of versions, releases, hot fixes, errata, bug fixes, patches, updates, and workarounds. Learn how to find the version on your system.
How to Remove Your IP from Yahoo’s Blacklist
Posted by Jeff H. on March 09, 2009
So you fire up your favorite mail client (mine's Thunderbird) only to find upset customers and bounced emails. Appears, Yahoo! has blacklisted you. Learn how to get out of their blacklist.
rackAID eliminates WhateverLife’s performance issues and cuts costs by 40%.
Posted by Jeff H. on February 17, 2009
rackAID reduces Whateverlife's hosting costs by 40% while increasing capacity. Through our partnership with SoftLayer, we were able to rapidly deploy servers to meet the client's needs. By analyzing keep bottlenecks in the site's architecture we were able to reduce server costs and improve performance. Optimizing Apache, MySQL and isolating static content to a dedicated system resulted in a more reliable IT service platform that delivered 400% improvement in site speed, increased site to over 99.9% from 98% and reduced costs by 40%.
Why Not Customize Red Hat? Security and Stability
Posted by Jeff H. on January 22, 2009
This week, Red Hat has rolled out RHEL 5.3,. We've been busy pushing it out to our servers as we like to keep them updated. Along with the 5.3 release, Mark Cox posted an interesting article on the risk profile of 5.2. He's examined the number of patches that have been submitted since the 5.2 release in May of 2008. For a default install, which many of our clients use, there were 45 advisories to address 127 vulnerabilities
How to Securely Managed Files with Secure FTP SCP WinSCP
Posted by Jeff H. on January 19, 2009
Still using FTP? If so, you may want to consider this: Every time your FTP client logs into your server, you are sending your user name and password over the internet unencrypted.
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