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Finding out your VPS has been hacked is like walking out to your car, and seeing the gaping hole where your stereo used to be. It hurts, bad.
However there are plenty of steps you can take as a VPS owner to secure your setup. Most of these are fairly basic and can halt the majority of hacking attempts.
If you need help setting up or configuring anything listed below, don’t hesitate to contact support. Who knows, you could get lucky and get me for your tech!
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I have found over the years that it is anoying when you update the hostname on a server running cpanel and cpanel gives you an invalid licence error, if you want to change the hostname on a cpanel server then
- 1) log into shell with root
- 2) type “hostname (then at the end put anything you want as your hostname, but it must be something.yourdomain.xxx please be aware that the something will show as the server name in cpanel
- 3) type /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt
Then just load cpanel as you would normaly, but dont forget to add an a entry for the new hostname.
You Can also Read: How To: Install and Configure a GUI on your Linux VPS
This post have been posted by SEAN of Zone.net. All copywrites goes to him.
This seems to be a topic that appears often on the VPS forum, so I thought I would get around to posting a simple instruction set for getting a GUI (GNOME or KDE) working on your VPS.
These instructions are aimed towards the Fedora distribution, but should work fine with CentOS or any other Linux distro (except maybe RHEL, which has some extra steps):
Firstly, make sure that you have YUM installed, if not, you have to go find the RPM for YUM via google or rpmfind.net, and do an “rpm -Uvh < . file .rpm .>” (remove the dots) once you get it. YUM works off python, so it’s not a binary just a bunch of scripts (so arch. doesnt matter).
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Here is a general list of things, from a client point of view, what really every host should strive for, and what every client should be looking for in a host.
- 1. choose a VPS provider who’s datacenter is geographically close to your target audience. Also a host that is fairly close to you, since you’ll be the one accessing the VPS the most.
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