Results for ‘linux’

The Benefits of Jailing SSH Users
Friday, April 13th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Yes, SSH users should be jailed, but only within the confines of your server’s virtual prison. SSH, which stands for Secure Shell, is a tool that gives users command-line access to a server. Those technical savvy web hosting users who...

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Managing cPanel with WHM Scripts
Thursday, February 16th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE The job of a system administrator can be a complicated one. The WebHost Manager (WHM) interface provided by cPanel is one of the most sophisticated graphical server management solutions on the market, and many system administrators depend on it to...

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eApps Hosting Offers CentOS 6 Templates
Thursday, December 15th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – eApps Hosting announced the availability of 32 and 64 bit OS templates running the CentOS 6 Linux operating system. Customers can quickly deploy and provision a Xen Virtual Machine running a plain vanilla CentOS 6 or...

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NetHosting Supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
Thursday, December 8th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – NetHosting, a leader in Cloud, Dedicated Server, VPS Hosting, and shared hosting services since 1994, has recently announced that its offering of hosting products now fully supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, which contains the next phase...

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Hidden Linux Files and How to View Them in cPanel
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Using a  website may provide you with your first opportunity to use a Linux-based operating system. For the most part, Linux accomplishes tasks in a similar fashion to Windows or Mac OS X, but there are some important filesystem differences...

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How to Setup Anonymous FTP with cPanel
Monday, October 31st, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Anonymous FTP (file transfer protocol) is a type of FTP connection that does not require the user to login to the server. For security reasons, this is generally a bad idea, as it gives unknown users access, even if it...

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Enkompass Windows Web-Based Control Panel
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When you want to manage a Windows server, there are not a lot of quality web-based control panels available, especially if you want something that is familiar and easy to use. One option you might want to consider is Enkompass,...

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5 Free Open Source Security Tools
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Network and server security can be expensive, but not having good security is even more expensive.  Fortunately, you can have the best of both worlds thanks to the many free and open source security solutions that are available to web...

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Understanding Unix and Linux File Permissions
Thursday, August 4th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Unix-like operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, and others) use the standard POSIX file permission system for user and file security.  It is simple yet powerful, and while there are other more complex options, such as ACL, these...

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Expanding Linux Portfolio, Oracle Acquires Ksplice
Friday, July 22nd, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Making big news in the area of Linux, database management company Oracle today announced that it has acquired Ksplice, a Linux security updater. The acquisition gives Oracle an expanded portfolio in the areas of diagnostics and...

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