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Website Gzip Online Compression Test Tool
We’ve been tweaking with the gzip compression on the web server that hosts kallasoft.com, breakitdownblog.com and upmyownass.com and I kept having to dig for online tools to quickly and easily test if the compression was working and by how much. (We’ve been adjusting the DeflateCompressionLevel argument to find a good balance between compressed page content [...]
Continue reading...How to Check if Apache is Running Prefork or Worker
21. February 2010
For about the last week I’ve been trying to tweak the performance of a particular Apache server with varying degrees of success and failure. The biggest frustration is that I haven’t been able to find a way to determine which MPM mode Apache was running in: Prefork or Worker. Without that information I couldn’t tell [...]
Continue reading...When Server Load Goes to the Moon – Slicehost ‘resize’ Comes to the Rescue
15. January 2010
One of the member sites of The Buzz Media ran a story this morning that caused the load on the host server to go pas ‘11′… waaaay way past ‘11′ – to 257.89 to be exact according to ‘top’ (above).
This host server was not in a load-balanced configuration when the rush happened, we weren’t able [...]
WordPress Image Upload ‘Crunching’ Not Resizing Images
14. January 2010
NOTE: I am posting this information here because I just spent 20 mins Googling for the types of phrases in the title and never got a direct answer and hope anyone else that isn’t a PHP/WordPress guru that needs help with this can find it with this post.
I migrated my WordPress sites to a new server [...]
How to Remove reycross.com WordPress Malware
15. September 2009
It seems that a new WordPress malware hijack is making the rounds and we got hit. Google just issued me a “this site contains malware” warning for my sites, after some quick investigation it looks like the hijack has attached a malicious <iframe> block to the end of every HTML and PHP page in the [...]
Continue reading...UPDATE – Site Cleaned, Malware Removed
30. June 2009
Over the last few weeks you might have seen a warning window like the one above (or similar to it) when visiting the site. Unfortunately it looks like some WordPress plugin-tinkering that I did right before going on vacation introduced an obnoxious malware hook into the site (don’t worry, it’s nothing epicly horrible).
I just finished [...]
FOG as a web-based Ghost Replacement
1. February 2009
Lets face it, some sectors just can’t move to Linux due to legacy application support, lack of personnel support, employee training, and especially due to the jump in vastly different user interfaces. Each company has their own incredibly (insert sarcasm) unique reason for holding back. So, what is left for the network admins to do [...]
Continue reading...Using Fail2Ban to prevent Brute Force Attacks
31. January 2009
Has your SOHO server been seeing a lot of failed ssh attempts from ipaddresses unknown to you? If so, you might be suffering from a brute force attack. These types of attack attempt to break into your box by trying to guess usernames and passwords. They are typically run on zombified computers from all [...]
Continue reading...Programming a Simple Client/Server Application with Ruby
23. November 2008
Being able to add some sort of client/server model to your programs is pretty essential these days, and Ruby does a fine job making your life easier.
For this article, I’ll show you a quick, down-and-dirty way of getting a very simple server up and running and a client that will say “Hello Server World” and [...]
AjaXplorer: a Web-based File Manager
21. November 2008
AjaXplorer is quite a unique tool, and if you haven’t heard of it you might want to check out the latest 2.3.8 version. Essentially, AjaXplorer creates a web-based file manager using, you guessed it, Ajax. You can upload and view files, edit text files, create folders, and move or rename files and folders. [...]
Continue reading...Using host.allow and hosts.deny for Quick Network Security
13. November 2008
While configuring a firewall is by far the best way to secure your system, there are times when you need a way to access a remote server that doesn’t compromise security.
A quick fix for boxes that need to be in the De Militarized Zone (DMZ) for a short period of time is to modify your [...]
Sockso Personal Music Server
6. November 2008
If you have ever wanted to have access to your personal music collection from anywhere on the road Sockso Personal Music Server just might be the answer you were looking for. All that is required for the installation is Java and a Windows, Linux, or Mac box to run the server on. The software has [...]
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21. February 2010
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