How To Install VNC Server On CentOS
VNC (Virtual Network Computing ) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol to remotely control another coumputer on a network. To run the VNC Server...
Install GeoIP Module For Country/City Level Geo Targeting (NGINX)
Install MaxMind C API Type the following commands to install MaxMind C API: # cd /tmp # wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP.tar.gz # tar -zxvf GeoIP.tar.gz # cd GeoIP-1.4.6 # yum install zlib-devel # ./configure...
Apache Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 or 443
First make sure port 80/443 is not used by any other service or application with netstat command: # netstat -tulpn| grep :80 If port 80 is bind to httpd, kill...
Install, Configure & Optimise PHP5 with PHP5-FPM
PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. Source : PHP-FPM Website PHP-FPM is far better...
How To Install XCache From Source
XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been proven and is now running on production servers under high load. It is tested (on linux) and supported on all of...
Tuning Apache for High Traffic
Step 1: Optimize your software First of all, optimize your software. No LAMP stack setup can repair the damage done by bad database queries, missing caching algorithms, bloated code and...
How To Install Linux, Lighttpd, MySQL, and PHP5 (LLMP Stack) on Centos 6
Introduction Lighttpd is an open source web server originally written by Jan Kneschke as an alternative to Apache, it has a low memory footprint and numerous websites such as YouTube...
Adding Secondary IP Addresses On Centos
There are plenty of reasons you would need an additional IP address (and everyone agrees that SEO is not one of them). Getting a secondary IP address is a simple process if...
Securing DNS against DDOS Amplification Attacks
When you run a DNS server on your dedicated server, it will be the target DNS amplification attacks. To prevent these attacks from succeeding and using up your bandwidth (which you will...
IPtables Blacklists
Many of you already use online blacklists to fight spam. Recently I’ve dicovered http://www.openbl.org/ and started using their lists on my firewall to prevent attacks from hosts that are known to be...