March 10th in cPanel, Tutorials by .

CentOS cPanel Installation, Security and Optimization

cPanel is one of the most used control panels for web hosting providers, therefore I’m sharing a few security and optimization secrets learned over the years. This should get you started in the right direction.

February 26th in Linux, Tutorials by .

KDE and VNC server inside OpenVZ Container

Running KDE inside an OpenVZ container is a rather easy task. And this may help you in case you wanna have an online office available from any where in the world.

February 24th in cPanel, Linux, Tutorials by .

cPanel PHP Optimization / Hardening

PHP is one of the most popular web scripting languages, but it is not one of the most secure.
In this article I’ll explain how to minimally harden PHP for cPanel, this can be adapted for any linux server using PHP.

February 4th in cPanel, Linux, Tutorials by .

cPanel Apache Security and Optimization

cPanel comes with apache compiled and configured, but it’s not secure at all, it’s not configured for performance either. In this article I’ll share a few tips on how to securely configure apache and optimize it a bit.

January 21st in Programming, Tutorials by .

Execute shell/bash command using C/C++

In this article I’ll explain how to execute a shell command using a c/c++ program.
There’s an advanced example included, reading line by line from a file and executing a command for each line.

January 20th in Tutorials, Virtualmin / Webmin by .

How To install Webmin Securely on CentOS

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to install webmin securely with ssl on CentOS 5.4. Only https connections will be accepted, and a few options will be changed also for security reasons.

January 20th in Linux, Tutorials by .

CentOS / Ubuntu how to change the IP address

FOR BEGINNERS ONLY.
In this small tutorial I’ll explain how to configure the network interface on CentOS and Ubuntu. This includes IP Address, Gateway, Broadcast, etc.

January 7th in Linux, Tutorials by .

Ubuntu / CentOS pptpd howto

In this tutorial I will explain how to setup a Ubuntu / CentOS pptpd server.
The clients that connect to this server will have a dedicated ip address, this will be done with iptables NAT.
I’ll share a few tricks in order to configure this server for windows clients and to allow Yahoo/MSN connections.

January 6th in cPanel, Linux, Tutorials by .

cPanel ffmpeg howto

In this tutorial I will explain how to install and configure ffmpeg for php on a CentOS with or without cPanel.
You will still need a some linux knowledge in order to accomplish this.
As a side note, this is for 64bit and 32bit distributions.

January 5th in Programming, Tutorials by .

Mysql C API Programming

In this tutorial I will explain how to write a simple C++ program using MySQL C API.
This program is only a example in order to get you started in the right direction using C++ and MySQL.
If you’re planning to build the next rival to www.partypoker.com then you might need a little bit more training, but this should get you started.