Too much denied named queries ?

When you have setup a production box, running with a DNS server ( named service, in this matter ), you get tones of queries. If you have disabled recursion, lesser the number of DNS workload. While going through your /var/log/messages, have you found lots of query (...

Investigating your Linux box for vulnerabilities

A server in a live environment is always susceptible to malware attacks, code vulnerabilities, hacking, rootkits and what not else ! Analyzing your server for these back-doors and pin-pointing the exact issue always poise a big problem to the server owners or their...

Control panels for production servers

When it comes to selecting a control panel for your hosting server, you might be in a perplexed stage. The industries hit-list items are cPanel, DirectAdmin and Parallels Plesk. I have played with these 3 and most of the times when I play longer, they screw me up. The...