Plesk: Update Spamassassin to Fix 2010 Bug
Recently, I’ve been seeing more and more reports of users saying that good email are getting marked as spam. This issue is due to a bug in SpamAssassin that treats…
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To be a Good Sysadmin Never Forget the Big Picture
Today, we were to get started on a Plesk migration, but there’s a problem. The new server lacks enough IPs to migrate the sites; this fact was unfortunately missed in…
Does Long Server Uptime Reveal Management Failure?
While perusing some sysadmin blogs, I caught an older post by Sam Pointer regarding server uptimes that struck a chord with me. Too often I find people touting high server…
7 Easy Steps to Improve Email Service on Plesk
If you use Plesk, you can better protect your email service from spam, message overload and user password problems with a few simple tweaks. You can make all of these…
How to Harden and Secure SSH for Improved Security
With the sudden rise in SSH brute force attacks, securing SSH is more important than ever. In a shared hosting environment, you options are somewhat limited, but if you have…
How to Add Protective Measures Against SSH Attacks
Earlier this week, I noted that ssh brute force attacks are on the rise. These attacks attempt to guess SSH passwords by repeatedly accessing your server. Often these attacks…
Block SSH Brute Force Attacks with IPTables
Detecting a SSH Brute Force Attack If you are under a SSH brute force attack, you will likely see something like this in your logs. Jan 26 03:46:02 host sshd[22731]:…
