I am ready to deploy my startup on the web so i would like to start small and get a VPS from linode as i see many good reviews and see how its going… the thing is that on their website they state: Transfer 200GB for their Linode 512 does this include incoming and outgoing traffic? what if i get some unexpected traffic due to ddos, i dont know what else and all my traffic [...]

We have migrated to new Dedicated Host (iweb.com). We are using Drupal as a CMS. When I load a site from browser, the site loads in 40-50 seconds. We have no load on server (the site not yet published). While the site is loading I have checked that RAM is ok (1GB free). Where I should start debugging? What might cause the problem like this? Our server is with 4GB Ram. But we have constant [...]

i am using windows server 2008 R2 (iis 7.5) and looking for the best and clean and quick way for preparing my web server with php applications without any conflicts with installed iis. also i have installed DNS and Mail Server (MDaemon) and CProxy in that server(VPS – have remote access – i am system web developer -> asp.net with c#). how can i do this job? really appreciate for help i googled it and [...]

What is going on on my web server if I mount a SSHFS drive at a remote server (off site, hosted by a VPS on a different domain) and someone downloads a file that I have on my web server? Here’s the scenario, if the question above needs elaboration: File downloads are getting too large and too frequent to be supported by my company’s web server and ISP. We have had a VPS in place [...]

My website www.sagamountain.com was recently infected by a malware distributor (or at least I think it may have been). I have removed all external content, google ads, firefly chat, etc. I uploaded a backup from a few weeks ago, when there was no issue. I patched the SQL injection hole. Now, how long will it take to unmark it as dangerous? Where can I contact google? I am not sure if this is the right [...]

Some collegues are suggesting a web load balancing schema with multiple web servers (IIS7) on different virtual machines all running on the same hardware. Is this a truly advantageous setup? All machines are 64 bit so memory addressing shouldn’t be an issue. Asked by Mr Grieves The way I see it is this: With the virtualization, you sandbox some of the processing resources. You separate out into discrete units the web servers; you can upgrade [...]

Where I can find ModSecurity Rules for Specific Applications specially joomla, wordpress, mambo ? Asked by Libyano The OWASP Core Ruleset contains a set called slr_rules which are created by SpiderLabs Research to protect against known vulnerabilities. These rules are not activated in the default configuration. There are separate files for PHPBB, Joomla and WordPress as well as files covering XSS, RFI, LFI and SQL attacks in these and many other popular web applications. Mambo [...]

I’m migrating from mod_php to nginx. I got everything working except for this rewrite.. I’m just not familiar enough with nginx configuration to know the correct way to do this. I came up with this by looking at a sample on the nginx site. server { server_name test01.www.myhost.com; root /home/vhosts/my_home/blah; access_log /var/log/nginx/blah.access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/blah.error.log; index index.php; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites; } location @rewrites { rewrite ^ /index.php last; rewrite ^/ht/userGreeting.php /js/iFrame/index.php last; [...]

Our server has just been hacked few days ago, we made a complete backup of it, but, from that time, we get erros while trying to access our websites hosted on it : some times, everything works perfectly, and then when we refresh the page, we get an error message : Internal server error Where could that come from ? Thanks Asked by Miles M. Check the logs. The answer is there: Apache Logs Lighthttp [...]

I currently have a domain pointing to the IP of a server I want to get rid of. On another IP, I have my server set up entirely, and I now want to (temporarily) get all visitors to this new server, without them noticing a difference in url. I am aware I can just change the A record of my domain’s DNS, but since I want to perform a temporary test for a few hours, [...]