mysql Resetting MySQL root Password The right way I've seen many guides that state to reset the MySQL root password you must start the daemon with the --skip-grant-tables option so you can login without credentials,
nginx NginX Loadbalancing NginX Loadbalancing You may come to point where you need load balancing to keep up with demand and introduce a bit more redundancy to your website. This will be a
Backup Dont get caught out We as mere mortals need to have this in place because we are fundamentally flawed to fuck up once in a while. For a proper backup
APF and Fail2ban SSH Jail Advanced Policy Firewall and Fail2ban SSH Jails I use APF to control IPTables and recently had to setup a server listening on the default SSH port so I had to install additional security to safe guard my SSH port. Fail2ban scans log files for
nano Mastering GNU Nano Nano the best cmdline text editor So theres much debate on what text editor you should use in the sysadmin community. Alot sware by vi/vim personally I use nano and always will, almost all the commands are like a muscle reaction for me
apache Observium Obvserve all the things Today we will be installing observium on a centOS system with an apache webserver Install the EPEL and RPMForge repo's if you havent already rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -Uvh http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/
notes.rackerjack.uk Stikked After using gitpaste for a while Blake Moore introduced me to Stikked A better looking gitpaste :) This is a php pastebin variant with lots of nice syntax highliging, the ablity to update pastes with a reply, an API and a useful diff utility
terminal Gorgeous Terminals in Fedora 21 GNOME terminal themes in Fedora 21 And any other distro using the gnome-terminal Found this nice lil thang https://github.com/Xifax/gnome-terminal-themes-cornucopia a python script to install terminal themes for the gnome-terminal extract and run with python cornucopify.py type help for commands
ssh Why is my SSH service so slow?! You may be getting a brute force attack Not always from China But mostly is ;) So how to check if you are a victim of this? If you have followed my other guide on securing your server you probably will never be on the
ghost Ghost Blog Setup with NginX Setting up Ghost blog To install the needed dependancies for the ghost blog run these commands yum install npm nodejs npm install forever -g Then we will add a new user for ghost to run under adduser ghost then we must deny SSH access
ghost Jacks Perfect server setup My Guide to a perfect server In this guide I will show you how to setup the perfect server using CentOS 6.5 Secure SSH setup Firewall with APF OpenVPN
ubuntu Setting up LAMP on a ubuntu 14.04 server Setting up LAMP on ubuntu 14.04 LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP today we will show you how to set this up on a ubuntu server. And also how to configure a vhost on apache, setting up ftp to upload content
