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Hostsvault.com’s Billing system updated!

HostsVault — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:36:22 +0000

We are pleased to announce that we have upgraded our WHMCS billing system from version 4.3 to the latest 5.0.3. This provides our clients with a more secure shopping environment and connections to our servers. It provides more flexibility within the system to automate more support options, more robust knowledge base system, and ticket flows. [...]

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Happy System Administrator Day

HostsVault — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:40:24 +0000

System Administrator Appreciation Day is on the Last Friday of July

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Howto virus scan FTP uploaded files on PureFTPd using clamAV (cpanel servers)

HostsVault — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:59:39 +0000

Automatically scanning FTP uploaded files using Cpanel's installed clamAV

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Howto Upgrade From Ext3 To Ext4 Without Formatting The Hard Disk

HostsVault — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:49:17 +0000

Last year EXT4 was announced as stable release and it was merged in kernel 2.6.28 as part of the coder afterwards, it brings many great features am stating some here before getting on how to move an existing partition to ext4 without formatting Large file system The ext4 filesystem can support volumes with sizes up [...]

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Howto protect services like SSH against brute force using only IPtables (port knocking)

HostsVault — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:11:00 +0000

Port Knocking is an approach that helps protecting your services ports from attacks the most famous brute forced would be SSH , the port knocking method depends that the client trying to connect will first attempt to connect to a predefined ports which will enable connection to your secured service port for 5 seconds , [...]

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Howto fix WordPress < = 2.8.3 Remote admin reset password

HostsVault — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:16:12 +0000

A new exploit has been discovered in WordPress the famous blogging web application , the exploit resets the admin password without the need of the “Password Reset” email the detailed explanation is here , here is the exploited code : Since the key is only checked for being an empty string then if you pass [...]

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Various Sys Admin one line Bash commands, one-liners (CLI wisdom)

HostsVault — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:03:42 +0000

Various Sys Admin one line Bash commands, one-liners (CLI wisdom)

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Howto Free up used memory on a Linux operating system

HostsVault — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:34:10 +0000

Howto Free up used memory on a Linux operating system

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Howto recompile Linux kernel faster (reduce compilation time)

HostsVault — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:39:32 +0000

Howto reduce kernel compilation time

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Howto recover deleted files (undelete) on a Linux ext3 partition

HostsVault — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:13:43 +0000

Recovering deleted files (undelete) from a Linux EXT3 partition

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