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Disadvantages of Cloud for Large Enterprises

Disadvantages of Cloud for Large Enterprises

Faraz Ahmed September 30, 2012 1

Must do some research before you put your business in the cloud. Large enterprises have several specific requirements like 1. High level of Security. 2. Knowledge of Physical location for security and audits. 3.

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Change SSH Default Port to Non Standard Port

Change SSH Default Port to Non Standard Port

Faraz Ahmed July 9, 2012 0

Hardening SSH security is necessary for better server security, Using SSH over default port is a risk its suggested by Linux gurus to either change SSH port or disable password based access to the server.

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Disable Dangerous PHP Functions

Disable Dangerous PHP Functions

Faraz Ahmed June 27, 2012 0

PHP is yet one of most powerful languages used around the web with integration of web based shell execution commands PHP can even handle various areas where it can control whole server . PHP uses several

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Stop Excessive Resource Usage Warnings

Stop Excessive Resource Usage Warnings

Faraz Ahmed June 25, 2012 0

I was constantly receiving large amount of emails from one of my server with following details: Time: Mon Jun 25 02:48:03 2012 -0400 Account: xxxxxxxx Resource: Virtual Memory Size Exceeded: 238 > 100 (MB) This was

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Secure WordPress Website

Secure WordPress Website

Faraz Ahmed March 14, 2012 0

WordPress is one of the most popular content management and blog publishing platform used around the world even at the time of writing this post only WordPress 3.3 has been downloaded by 10,784,818 times

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Install and configure CSF Firewall on server

Install and configure CSF Firewall on server

Faraz Ahmed February 5, 2012 0

In this post I am going to describe Installation method of CSF (Config Server Firewall) . In now a days CSF is basic need for server security and is used on large number of

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Disable custom PHP.INI for accounts

Disable custom PHP.INI for accounts

Faraz Ahmed February 4, 2012 0

If you are providing shared hosting sometimes its dangerous to allow custom php.ini because some users uses dangerous functions and allows custom php.ini on servers

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Connect to SFTP with different SSH Port

Connect to SFTP with different SSH Port

Faraz Ahmed October 28, 2011 0

For security reasons its highly suggested to change SSH port of your server from default to something else. If you have changed the SSH port and wants to connect from other server to your

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