Getting started Q. How do you keep track of authorized and unauthorized activity on your server? A. OSSEC is one of the best current tools to monitor any suspicious activity. OSSEC is an open-source, host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It can be used…
Dedicated Servers
What is Web Hosting?
For you to have a website on the Internet, you will need a place to keep the files for your website. You will also need a way for people to see and download the files on your website. This is what a web hosting company does. They have servers (advanced computers) made just to have websites on them, so…
Our new VPS system is live
We now offer full root access VPS services. With prices starting as low as $16.99 a month, you can get a fully powered VPS server with a gig of RAM and 10 gigabytes of hard drive space. This includes full backups and CPanel for only $11 more a month. For full details, please look at…
CPanel upgrades
We just made some awesome new improvements to your CPanel. As always we do basic security and software updates nightly but every couple months we make some major improvements we like to let everyone know about. The latest update done on 02/02/2015 has some great upgrades to your CPanel including: Reinforced Security CPanel includes a…
Easy Apache will start phasing out of Apache 2.2
In about 2 months, the Basic profile in EasyApache will build Apache 2.4 by default. This change will not alter existing EasyApache profiles that build Apache 2.2. If you plan to update from an existing Apache 2.2 installation to Apache 2.4, we strongly recommend that you build in a test environment before you migrate Apache…
IP Subnet Masks
So IP subnet masks can be a bit tricky. Some IP’s are usable, some are not, and /24 is a different number than how many IP’s are available or even used. What I mean is for 100 IP’s why not go /100 seams easy enough lol. Well Computer programmers are infamous for making things harder…
Security Advisory: OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160)
There is a new vulnerability as of 4-10-2014 in OpenSSL called the “Heartbleed Bug” (CVE-2014-0160) which affects any server utilizing this for SSL connections. The Heartbleed bug allows an attacker to send a SSL/TLS heartbeat request to the server, which sends back a 64KB chunk of memory to the attacker. This memory can contain sensitive…
Speed up your site by managing Inodes!
Inodes are simply the amount of individual files in your domain. For example a file that is 1 megabyte or 100 megabytes is still just 1 inode. To speed up your site all your need to do is keep these your files a s low as possible. The more Inodes you have the harder the…