Category Archives: VPS - Page 2

How to setup your first VPS – linode – PART 1

linode

linode

For this example, we’ll be setting up a VPS with with awesome folks at Linode lets begin! Once we are past the account setup stuff, this guide will help you setup a VPS with any provider.

ntop

http://www.banym.de/projects/centos-fedora/install-ntop-on-centos

System Prep | SecureCentos.com

Good place to start securing your Centos Build

nano -w /etc/sysconfig/network

via System Prep | SecureCentos.com.

Install OSSEC | SecureCentos.com

Please note a new version of ossec is available, 2.4.1 The link below describes installation of 2.3 which has some issues when rebooting etc etc

via Install OSSEC | SecureCentos.com.

Lighttpd Centos

Lighttpd is the web server of choice for low memory VPS applications.

Lighttpd is not included in the base CENTOS Repo, so you will need to install the RPMFORGE repo. then

PHP 5.3.2 APC Centos Conundrum

So the PHP 5.3.2 is not in the default repository for Centos.

So we need to use the webtatic repository to install php 5.3.2 using the guide from here ->

Setup VSFTPD

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=662784

Users, Files and permissions

http://www.debianadmin.com/users-and-groups-administration-in-linux.html

Install ntop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux

Install ntop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux.

DenyHosts

Deny hosts is a tiny program that will add ip addresses to the /etc/hosts.deny file when automated scripts try and brute force attack the sshd port.