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Bad robots
As part of being on a VPS, bandwidth is limited. One of the things you have to watch for is bots, crawlers, and scrapers coming and stealing your content and bandwidth. Some of these bots are good and...
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WordPress, suPHP, and Ubuntu Server 10.04
If you have WordPress running under an unprivileged user account, you may have noticed that when trying to install or delete a plugin that it prompts you for FTP information. This is due to a rather...
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Problems installing PECL libraries when you have noexec /tmp and /var/tmp
At first I had all sorts of issues installing software on my VPS until I realized that my /tmp and /var/tmp were both mounted noexec. It’s a great security precaution, but if you’re not aware of it, it...
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Backing up your server using JungleDisk Server Edition – part 3
This is the third part in a three-part series. Make sure to read part 1 and part 2! The one bad thing I’ve come to notice about the JungleDisk Server Edition is, over time, it tends to hog a lot of...
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Quick list of useful SPF DNS records
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a DNS record that’s used to authenticate who is allowed to send mail appearing to come from a specific domain. It is used to help prevent email spamming and spoofing,...
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Basic Ubuntu VPS server backup via FTP or SSH SFTP
In my quest for the perfect “in my dreams” backup solution for my Ubuntu VPS, I created this very simple script which can be run as a cron job and can be easily modified to backup any amount of data to...
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