Helpful Tips and Tricks for Server Administrators
A VPN allows you to connect to remote VPN servers, making your connection encrypted and secure and surf the web anonymously by keeping your traffic data private. There are many commercial VPN providers you can choose from, but you can never be truly sure that the provider is not logging your activity. The safest option … Read more
Control panels generally should not be installed on existing servers with software and services already installed. Instead, we highly recommend you install control panels on new deployments. Control panels are generally simple to use, but they can also have their own amount of complexity that needs to be accounted for. What Does a Control Panel Do? A … Read more
Traceroute is an application that traces the path data takes from one computer to another. Basically a traceroute is a map that shows what stops or locations that data must pass through in order to go from one computer to another. This is a very effective troubleshooting tool when diagnosing connectivity issues from one server … Read more
Choosing a shiny new home for your server is kind of like choosing a real estate investment. Location. Location. Location! Location is one of the most important factors when selecting your data center. Depending on the content you are delivering to your users and the size of your user-base, you will likely want to put … Read more
ConfigServer Firewall, also known as CSF, is a firewall configuration script created to provide better security for your server while giving you an advanced, easy to use interface for managing firewall settings. ConfigServer Firewall also comes with a service called Login Failure Daemon, or LFD Prerequisites CentOS 8 (CentOS 7 will also work). root privileges to your CentOS Server What we … Read more
Whether you’re running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, it is usually very good practice to back up your MySQL databases to prevent data loss. Here we will teach you how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command. Your Ubuntu Server is now up and running with a LAMP stack in your … Read more
To Change the SSH Port for Your Linux Server Connect to your server via SSH Switch to the root user Run the following command:vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Locate the following line:# Port 22 Remove # and change 22 to your desired port number. Restart the sshd service by running the following command: service sshd restart
In this post, you will learn how to secure SSH on your Bare Metal Server. Securing SSH on your server is quick and easy, to secure the server , we would disable direct root login. That could be done via sshd_config file. Here Protocol 2 needs to be used which is more secure. Refer the … Read more
We get a lot of questions from our users about how they can test our multiple network sites across the internet. Here is a simple guide and link to each of our current datacenter speedtests, this is extremely helpful for users who wish to test speeds from each of our sites. Dallas TX Datacenter http://lg-dallas.serverhub.com … Read more
This tutorial is going to show you a simple trick that you can use to reset your forgotten root password for CentOS 7 servers. Sometimes things happen and you totally forget your password. It happens to the best of us. This tutorial will only work if you have direct access to the machine (example: You … Read more