Category Archives: Guides

Limit Number of Connections from an IP
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Posted on August 5, 2011 by

One of the problems you can sometimes face with a website is people mirroring your site or search bots excessively connecting to you.  This is very easy to fix by limiting the number of connections an IP address is allowed … Continue reading →

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Stopping DOS Attacks with Mod_Evasive
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Posted on August 4, 2011 by

DOS attacks are becoming very common these days.  There are many different levels of DOS attack and monitoring your system and trying to prevent them all can be a full-time job.  However for the causal user you can easily add some basic … Continue reading →

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Easily Upgrade Fedora
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Posted on August 2, 2011 by

One of the downsides to using Fedora is that every six months there is another major release.  This can be annoying to keep up with but luckily Fedora has made it easy with the preupgrade command. All you need to … Continue reading →

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Clean-up Pacman
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Posted on August 2, 2011 by

In Arch when ever you install a package it is downloaded to your system. This make perfect sense because how else are you going to install it… What most people don’t realize is that those packages stay on the system … Continue reading →

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Apache’s Built in Server-Status Screen
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Posted on August 1, 2011 by

Apache has a built in server-status screen.  This gives you a run down of what is going on with your apache server.  This can be very useful but it can also be dangerous if the wrong person was able to … Continue reading →

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