Today, I had an unpleasant experience. When I tried to access my site, I was presented with a peculiar login page. No page was accessible. Even the wp-admin.php page was blocked out by the login page. There was only one input box for the password (see image). A study of the source code of the
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My VPS Got Hacked And Was Used For A “100 Mbit Outbound DDOS Connection”
I have a VPS which is used only to send emails to about 30,000 subscribers. I have been doing so for several years. All the subscribers are double opt-in confirmed. The I. P. address is white-listed and everything works well. The VPS is used sparingly. All of a sudden, I received an email today from
My RamNode VPS Got Hacked
I have a 128MB VPS with RamNode which I use only for storage of backup files. Yesterday, I got a surprising message from RamNode: “Your VPS has been using a high CPU load for an extended period of time. Please reduce your usage to comply with our AUP and notify us once you’ve done so.
easyengine auto-installer script for Nginx, MySql, PHP and WordPress and Wp-Super Cache
I am a fan of the CentminMod auto installer. This script auto-installs Nginx, PHP, MariaDB, NSD (DNS server) and several other necessities. Also, the author (eva2000) is a very helpful person and answers most questions promptly at WHT. The Centmin Mod script works well and uses very less RAM. This comes very handy at times
Complete Guide To Setting Up A VPS With WordPress (Centos) (Without Control Panel)
There are few things more satisfying than starting with an empty VPS and filling it with a fully functional WordPress website in just a few moments. The best thing is that we will not be using any Control Panel. This means that we don’t squander away precious RAM that would otherwise be consumed by the
Speed Test (Upload & Download) Of VPS
There are multiple ways to check the upload and download speed tests of a VPS. One way using the python tool is set out here. The other way is given in a LET post. It requires you to run this command: wget dl.getipaddr.net/speedtest.sh 2>/dev/null -O- | bash Here are the results of my RamNode VPS:
How To Check Upload & Download Speeds Of VPS
There is a simple speedtest script that will help you check the upload and download speeds of your VPS: Download the speedtest script onto your VPS with the command: wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py Chmod the script to make it readable chmod +x speedtest-cli Run the script python speedtest-cli Here are some speedtest results of the
VPS In India
If you want a VPS in India, you have a wide choice. Let’s look at the options. VR.org offers VPS at the Netmagic datacenter in Chennai. Let’s look at the performance of the VR.org Chennai VPS CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHzNumber of cores : 2CPU frequency : 2000.000 MHzTotal amount
How To Set Reverse DNS for VPS IP Addresses
I am using PHPList to send emails to my subscribers. When you use PHPList (or any other self-hosted email programme) a large number of mails are either rejected outright or delivered to the Spam/ Junk folder of the recipient. Three things are essential to avoid emails being rejected by the receiving or being treated as
WordPress Nginx Cache Plugin
If you are running WordPress on apache, you have no problem because all the well-known cache plugins like Quick Cache, WP Super Cache & W3 Total Cache work very well. However, if you are running WordPress on nginx, then you have a problem because with the different rewrite rules that Nginx has, the cache plugins