Dedicated Server Best Practices February 13, 2014

5 Ways to Reduce Your IT Costs

In todayâ€™s marketplace, organizations have become increasingly reliant on IT to improve business productivity and customer retention.Â At the same token, many faces with the dilemma of costly legacy IT systems.

The current economic climate has coerced many companies to find ways to reduce IT costs.Â For many companies, this can mean a massive undertaking and challenge presents a challenge for IT departments with budgetary restrictions.Â With traditional legacy IT systems, cutting costs on IT budgets could mean making do with aging in-house infrastructures which impede business productivity and customer demands for new technologies. The good news is there are ways you can reduce IT costs while gaining access to the latest technologies.

Cloud Hosting January 30, 2014

Web Server Usage Statistics and Trends in 2013/2014

Web Server Usage Statistics Worldwide trends during 2013 and 2014 offer insights and useful information on the online industry. The number one web server in the world is easily Apache. Nginx and Microsoft-IIS host 16.3% and 14.5% of global websites respectively. There is no other single server hosting over 2% of worldwide sites.

Cloud Hosting January 20, 2014

Data Security in the Cloud

Cloud and information technology performance capabilities continue to expand, and security for this technology must grow alongside. Hackers, phishers, and identity thieves all pose significant risks, but one of the most significant growing threats in the eyes of IT professionals is the recent information about National Security Agency data collection and monitoring. The industry is scrambling to ensure security in a heightened time of paranoia. Data security in the cloud is one of the platforms that need protection.

Support of the day January 13, 2012

Support of the day: Dead Scripts

If you regularly work with scripts on any Unix or Linux platform and it gets killed when you log out from ssh, the session dies or the scripts stop working after x time then you need to down it and fork it to the background.

So instead of running

/your/script/filename

run

nohup /your/script/filename &

What this does is start the script, the nohup downs the scripts (meaning that it has no owner so you can log out without killing the process) and the & at the end sends the process to the background.Â This is the alternative method to run something from within screen but this version works well with a crontab.

FYI the crontab is a file and a program (both named the same) that executes commands (opening files, sending email, any command that you could do via the regular shell) at specific interval or times.

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Support of the day December 15, 2011

Support of the day: SSH Keys

This weekâ€™s tip: SSH Keys (or I do not like typing my long cryptic password everytime I need to access my server)

If youâ€™ve been following my other tips you might remember that ssh uses different authentication options, credentials, domain login, password, you name it, one of these is via ssh keys.

Support of the day December 5, 2011

The world’s most dead simple http server

Simple HTTP server

1. Make sure your port 8000 is open

Nano /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Copy any of the rules (ctrl +K is cut, ctrl+U is paste) and swap the port for 8000, save and close

Service iptables restart

2. Go to the folder you want to share

cd /to/any/folder/you/want

3. Fire up the server

python â€“m SimpleHTTPServer

or

python -m http.server

4. Go to http://yourip:8000

FurtherÂ information:

This will act as a regular apache server, if on that folder is an index.html file, it will be displayed, otherwise, a list of the files on that folder will be shown.

To stop the server just press Ctrl + C

To send the process to the background add a & symbol at the very end of any of the python commands

Otherwise, press Ctrl + Z and then type bg and enter

To stop the process when the above has been done just type:

Ps aux | grep python

Look for the first group of 4 or 5 digits and then type

Kill #####