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Rate Limiting SSH with IPTables

mikho — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:28:46 +0000

You are most likely using Netfilter, aka IPTables, if you are running a recent Linux distro. Most firewalls supplied with hosting control panels or simple setup scripts fail to take advantage of some of the more advanced features available. A feature…

AXEL – multi-threaded downloads

mikho — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:48:47 +0000

What is Axel? When you want to download something from the command line you normally use the commands wget or curl. What if you want to accelerate these downloads? I recently found this command: Axel, works the same way but…

VestaCP – Change listening port admin interface (Part 2)

mikho — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:20:47 +0000

This is a follow up post on my previous article about changing the admin port for VestaCP (found here) For a new project I decided to install VestaCP on a server I have from LittleHappyCloud.net. LHC is a KVM server…

Connect to a remote mysql using ssh tunnels

mikho — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:35:23 +0000

In a previous article I wrote how to create a SSH tunnel with Putty and use it as a proxy to browse the web. That article can be found here and this article will continue on that track and show you how…

VestaCP – Change listening port admin interface

mikho — Wed, 13 May 2015 08:43:37 +0000

This will be a quick guide on how to change the listening port in VestaCP. In my test environment I’ve installed VestaCP on a VPS with Debian so this guide will show you how to change the port in that environment.…

IPTables and VestaCP – OUTPUT rules to allow DNS lookups

mikho — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:25:58 +0000

This week I’ve been wrestling with an issue on the VestaCP test server I have, don’t want to test stuff in production. 🙂 So I somehow noticed that the firewall service was stopped in Vesta which I found odd. Opened…

HTTP Status Codes [cheat sheet]

mikho — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:48:58 +0000

Someone (sorry, can’t remember where and by who) posted this image which is pretty short, sweet and self-explanatory. For those of us who want’s a bit more information about the different status codes…

Test I/O speed on Windows (Linux dd equivalent)

mikho — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:27:14 +0000

Introduction One part in testing a VPS is to read and write data to the disk. The other parts are usually the upload/download speed and CPU usage. We have all seen these statistics when reading reviews on providers. Being a part…

Reclaim reserved disk space XEN/KVM/VMWare/Dedicated

mikho — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:29:05 +0000

Joe Dougherty from SecureDragon.net (great guy running a great company) sent me a tip about this thread over at Lowendtalk.com and asked if I could write something about this “weird trick”. Actually it’s not a wierd trick, it’s a built in security…

Create bootable USB drives the easy way

mikho — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:41:52 +0000

Last week I took the time to upgrade my old vmware ESXi 4.0 installation at home. It is runnnig on a HP ML110 with 8GB Ram and a three 2TB Western Digital Green disks. It’s been running great for what I…