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How to mitigate DOS atacks with DOS-Deflate

Posted by yolau

What is DOS-Deflate?
(D)DoS Deflate is a shell script developed by Zaf, originally for use on MediaLayer servers to assist in combating denial of service attacks. However, it was seen to be very effective for our purpose, and therefore was released as a contribution to the web hosting community. (D)DoS Deflate is now used by not [...]

Basic security configuration for a new cPanel server

Posted by yolau

Note: This article is based on a Layeredtech knowledgebase article https://support.layeredtech.com/home/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=101

We do not guaranty that the following steps will make your server hack proof, but it will greatly reduce your chances of compromise.
Basic Steps to Securing CPanel (Linux based OS):
These are items inside of WHM/Cpanel that should be changed to secure your server.
Goto Server Setup [...]

Install MySQL Performance Tuning Primer Script

Posted by yolau

Tuning the performance of MySQL can be a really hard job to do.
There are many thinks to consider and no two servers are identical so there is no universal solution.
Tuning Primer is a script that will help you tune your mysql installation by providing very healthy recommendations based on past mysql records.
For the script to [...]