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Monthly Archives April 2008

Brute-force.

I just realised that my CentOS hosts don’t have Denyhosts running on them. cPanel is supposed to include some sort of anti-brute-force protection, but I don’t think it’s terribly reliable, since after installing Denyhosts on my main cPanel VM, I received the following in my admin email: Added the following hosts to /etc/hosts.deny: 222.66.76.146 (unknown) [...]

¶ Posted 17 April 2008 † John § Hosting § Security ‡ Comments (2) °

Post-mortem

Somewhat late, here’s the run-down on what went wrong with our big upgrade. The executive summary is: very little. Saturday’s hardware upgrades went reasonably well, although we did discover that the hardware just doesn’t like 2GB DIMMs, and caused a minor panic by forgetting to activate the second disk in the BIOS. The RAM issue [...]

¶ Posted 08 April 2008 † John § Hardware § Hosting § Xen ‡ Comments (0) °

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