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Server configuration and optimization. You will also find here tutorials and fixes on certain errors we’ve personally found!


How to install bind9 DNS server on debian

dns records

How to install bind9 DNS server on debian I’ve been wanting to write a tutorial about this for a long time now, this is also something I’ve learned the very first time I started playing with servers. In this article I’m going to show you how to install bind9 DNS server on debian (or ubuntu

How to change php timezone on your server

Timezone map

How to change php timezone on your server Normally when using a shared hosting service, the server you are being hosted on has a different timezone set. So your scripts may be displaying a different time than what you expect. Fixing this is not hard at all, however some users think that the server timezone

How to set apache server status using mod_status

Apache web server

How to set apache server status using mod_status What is apache server status? Normally only server administrators would have access to this section, they would look at this specific page to lookup more information on their current server activity in an easily readable form. The current information you can view from this page are: The

File backup script using cronjob

backup folder

File backup script using cronjob Just before the New Years a visitor was inquiring about how can he backup his account files, not just to backup the mysql databases. Well the process itself is similar, not that hard really. You do however need to understand that you should have access to the zip or tar

How to install haproxy as a reverse proxy

How to install haproxy as a reverse proxy This article was actually scheduled for some time now, I don’t really know why I left it in my draft here for so much time. I finally got the time to test and install haproxy as a reverse proxy server in front of apache web server. Install

Making a new cpanel plugin

Making a new cpanel plugin I’ve been really busy these last two weeks, have had some issues with some of my clients that were kinda abusing some of the server resources and have been diving my head a bit more into nginx webserver. In these last two weeks I have also managed to finally to

Which IP address is using more bandwidth?

bandwidth monitor

Which IP address is using more bandwidth? I’ve made before another article similar to this one about tracking and monitoring your server bandwidth, this however, is something a bit different, with more in depth view per IP address. Before you could see only the total amount of bandwidth used IN or OUT of your server, however

How to install SHOUTcast Server

shoutcast server radio

How to install SHOUTcast Server I recently got a client seeking to install shoutcast server  on his VPS server, normally we don’t install services other the default ones preinstalledinstalled/needed for any web server. However the specific client was looking for hosting his own shoutcast server for his little radio station and it seems that he

Limit wget download speed

wget download

Limit wget download speed wget, formally named geturl, is one of the most used command for downloading content on the internet within servers. I namely use it when downloading large amount of files that requires to have a lot of time until it finish. In such cases, wget can be used in a screen and

How to install Red5 Media Server on Ubuntu / Debian

red5 logo

How to install Red5 Media Server on Ubuntu or Debian Red5 Media Server is a powerful video streaming solution standing its own ground to the big giant Adobe with their own Adobe Media Server, however compared to them, Red5 is free, based on Java and other open source frameworks. It provides a good solution to

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