Category Archives: VPS - Page 2

How to setup your first VPS – linode – PART 1

Posted by on November 11, 2010 Comments Off
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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.  
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ntop

Posted by on August 12, 2010 Comments Off

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

System Prep | SecureCentos.com

Posted by on July 25, 2010 Comments Off

Good place to start securing your Centos Build

nano -w /etc/sysconfig/network

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Install OSSEC | SecureCentos.com

Posted by on July 24, 2010 Comments Off

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

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Lighttpd Centos

Posted by on July 22, 2010 Comments Off

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  
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PHP 5.3.2 APC Centos Conundrum

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

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 ->  
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Setup VSFTPD

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

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

Users, Files and permissions

Posted by on July 21, 2010 Comments Off

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

Install ntop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux

Posted by on July 20, 2010 Comments Off

Install ntop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux.

DenyHosts

Posted by on July 20, 2010 Comments Off

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.  
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