Archive for February, 2010

keepalived provides a strong and robust health checking for LVS clusters. It nginx implements a framework of health checking on multiple layers for server failover, and VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover. How do I install and configure Keepalived for reverse proxy server such as nginx or lighttpd?

This article explains the process that will allow you to recover a lost MySQL password:

Stop the MySQL server process

How do I redirect 80 port to 8123 using iptables?

You can easily redirect incoming traffic by inserting rules into PREROUTING chain of the nat table. You can set destination port using the REDIRECT target.

Apache is a powerful and widely-used World-Wide Web (Web) server. One of its strengths is that the modules that it is made of are customizable according to the user’s requirements. Ashish Kumar discusses the benefits and the process of customization, along with a brief introduction to some useful modules.

How do I restrict the number of connections used by a single IP address to my server for port 80 and 25 using iptables?

You need to use the connection limit modules which allows you to restrict the number of parallel TCP connections to a server per client IP address (or address block). This is useful to protect your server or vps box against flooding, spamming or content scraping.

Openvpn is an open source software, allows us to create a Virtual Private Network.

1. Istalling openvpn

install these packages openvpn openssh-server openssl:

laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install openvpn openssh-server openssl

Article by Aashish

Storage resource located on an iSCSI server known as a “target”. An iSCSI target usually represents nothing but hard disk storage. As with initiators, software to provide an iSCSI target is available for most mainstream operating systems.

Article by Aashish
How To Set Red hat / CentOS Linux Remote Backup / Snapshot Server

Q. I am using an HP RAID 6 server running RHEL 5.x. I’d like this box to act as a backup server for my other Red Hat DNS and Web server. The server must keep backup in hourly, daily and monthly [...]

MySQL Permissions

In: Aashish| MySQL

14 Feb 2010

Article by Aashish
MySQL Change Password
How do I MySQL root password under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and UNIX like operating system over ssl / telnet session ?
Setting up mysql password is one of the essential tasks.

MySQL can sometimes create big problems on a server when you have users abusing it.
This article will teach you how to correctly identify the queries that are creating a problem for your server.


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