How We Save Time and End Reboots with Ksplice
What would you do with an extra 30 hours? Well we’re busy testing new services, improving existing ones, and building new partnerships to make the rackAID experience an even better…
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64bit Kernel Exploit Fixed with Ksplice
If you’ve seen the news, there is a kernel exploit for 64-bit Linux operating systems. This exploit allows a local user to gain root level permissions on the server due…
Building Brand with Consistency
Building brand is difficult but there are some simple things you can do to help. Over the past few months, rackAID has been pushing into social media, discussion forums, and…
How to Remove Your IP from Secureserver.net (GoDaddy) Blacklist
Who is Secureserver.net? Godaddy.com. So if you get an email bounce from secureserver.net, then your server’s IP address may be on the GoDaddy blacklist. Getting off of the blacklist is…
How to Disable IPv6 in Apache Server
While we will certainly need to move to IPv6 when all of the IPv4 space is gone, right now, there is no reason to run Apache with IPv6 unless you…
Help Understanding DNS Lookups – Infographic
The infographic assumes no DNS records are cached at any point. Once caching is involved, the situation becomes more complicated. Want to Use This? I am happy to share…
How to Use WinSCP to Securely FTP Files
One of the war chants here at rackAID, is “Use Secure FTP.” While more and more legacy FTP clients now support FTP, I’ve always recommended WinSCP. It is easy to…