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What is APF?
Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) is an iptables(netfilter) based firewall system designed around the essential needs of today’s Internet deployed servers and the unique needs of custom deployed Linux installations. The configuration of APF is designed to be very informative and present the user with an easy to follow process, from top to bottom [...]
If you are running a shared hosting server is a very bad idea to allow perl scripts to run from /tmp
If have to have a separate /tmp partition mounted with noexec.
This is far from bullet proof but will add one more layer in your server security.
cPanel has a built in script that will mount a [...]
What is mytop?
mytop is a console-based (non-gui) tool for monitoring the threads and overall performance of a MySQL 3.22.x, 3.23.x, and 4.x server. It runs on most Unix systems (including Mac OS X) which have Perl, DBI, and Term::ReadKey installed.
You will find more details on the homepage at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/
How to install
Download mytop
wget http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/mytop-1.6.tar.gz
Extract and change [...]
What is Zend Optimizer?
The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Guard, while enhancing the performance of PHP applications.
How to install
cPanel offers an easy install process. You simply have to run:
/scripts/installzendopt
as root and fallow the install instructions. It’s as simple as clicking Next a few times.
After the install [...]
What is APC?
APC is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.
Install instructions
Login to the server as root
Download APC
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.0.14.tgz
Extract and move into the directory
gzip -d APC-3.0.14.tgz
tar -xf APC-3.0.14.tar
cd APC-3.0.14
Locate where php is
which php
This should return something like: /usr/local/bin/php
We have to remember the location of php
Create configuration files
phpize
Compile APC
./configure –enable-apc [...]
What is Eaccelerator?
eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the [...]
