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28Aug2011

DoS: looking at open connections.. How to stop DOS

Here is a command line to run on your server if you think your server is under attack. It prints our a list of open connections to your server and sorts them by ammount. RedHat: netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n BSD: netstat -na |awk '{print $5}' |cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n You can also check for connections by running the

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25Jul2010
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Softlayer CloudLayer Computing Instance Review

Gone are the days when you needed to pay huge monthly bills to rent a server. Now you can rent a server on hourly basis. Yes, its true ! The new buzzz among web hosting industry is Cloud Hosting. Using cloud hosting select only the resources you need Core, RAM,  HDD, OS etc. & within 2 minutes you are ready to go ! Pay only for what you use. Well, I was curious about Cloud Hosting so I

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25Jul2010
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What is CLOUD HOSTING ?

"Cloud Hosting" has been creating quite a buzz around these days. You might be hearing the phrase for the first time but the technology is not something new at this time of writing. In fact, you’re already part of the cloud hosting/computing users (without being noticed) as Google naturally is a big promoter of this idea. Google searches (as well as other Google operations) are

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20Jul2010

Blogetery.com shutdown by Burstnet

The popular blogging platform blogetery has been shut down by the United States Authorities which is affecting over 70000 blogs. After shutting down their server the service provider Burstnet has provided the reason of History of Abuse & links to terrorist sites. At present Burstnet has released this statement: On the evening of July 9, 2010, BurstNET® received a notice of a critical

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07Jul2010
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cPanel Scripts & their functions

Here are some useful cpanel scripts & their functions. Usage: /scripts/scriptname adddns – Adds a DNS zone. addfpmail – Add frontpage mail extensions to all domains without them. addfpmail2 -Add frontpage mail extensions to all domains without them. addnetmaskips – Add the netmask 255.255.255.0 to all IPs that have no netmask. addnobodygrp – Adds the group nobody and activates

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