According to Gartner & IDC, public cloud services ate up server hardware market that resulted in decline in server sales in first quarter of 2017. Server sales declined in 2017 as an effect of cloud services is not good news for the manufacturers with cloud services like Dell, HP too. Various companies more and more increasingly abandoning the solutions on premise and moving to the cloud. This … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is becoming more and more important. Here are articles on Cloud Computing,Cloud Server,SaaS,PaaS,IaaS and Cloud related technology.
Install, Configure Brotli On Apache, WordPress, W3TC
Previously we talked about Brotli compression in context of Nginx web server. Here is an all in one guide to install, configure Brotli on Apache, WordPress, W3TC running on Ubuntu 16.04 on dedicated server, cloud server instance. In order to follow this guide, you need SSH access and HTTPS/SSL/TLS to be active on your server/website. You can perform the steps on production server with running … [Read more...]
Install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 16.04 : Single Cloud Server
Apache Kafka is a stream processing platform which aims to provide a low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Its storage is a massively scalable pub/sub message queue architected as a distributed transaction log making it valuable to process streaming data. Kafka can connect to external systems for data import/export. Apache Kafka is a part of Big Data analysis too. Here are the … [Read more...]
Fail2Ban Log Analysis Bash Script For Report Generation
Previously we gave some complicated commands to our readers who use Fail2Ban and needs some checking. Other way was using BadIPs for creation of graph. Fail2Ban log analysis bash script is for report generation as list of attacker IPs, banned, unbanned, password attempts sorted by date, country. We written this easy script using various commands and we think it is useful to any sysadmin to quickly … [Read more...]
What Is Cloud Data Services (CDS)?
Data commonly stored in databases, like SQL or NoSQL database, but there are other types of data like the data we talk about in the context of Big Data. The moment we talked about Big Data, data analysis in the context of data becoming obvious. Of course the logs of web servers are also source of data and they need analysis. For the larger enterprises, sources of data are diverse and their … [Read more...]
Install GoAccess Real-Time Web Log Analyzer : Apache, Ubuntu
Previously we published GoAccess guides for Nginx and Nginx log with GeoIP. Here in this guide we will show how to install GoAccess real-time web log analyzer for Apache webserver running on Ubuntu and in case of Apache you need not to separately work on how to enable Apache log to have GeoIP enabled features. Apache default log itself a standard format. Install GoAccess Real-Time … [Read more...]
Installing GeoIP Module On Apache2, Ubuntu 16.04
We did it before but for Nginx (you can look - Installing GeoIP On Nginx). We need this to use GoAcesss log analyzer like tools, Piwik etc. WordPress like modern CMS use PHP based function and needs no server side work. Installing GeoIP Module On Apache2, Ubuntu 16.04 Needs Some Manual Steps After Running Installation Command. Sample PHP file supplied to test. Installing GeoIP … [Read more...]
sysctl.conf Tweaking In OpenVZ Virtual Server Instance
Many of the OpenVZ users try to tweak sysctl.conf and are returned with error. OpenVZ kernel offers a conservative and stable kernel. Here is some information on sysctl.conf tweaking in OpenVZ virtual server instance. Our all tweaks related to system is on dedicated servers, if we tweak any cloud server, we mention the name of the vendor along with the tweak. Applying tweaks for other system on … [Read more...]
How To Perform Security Audits On Ubuntu 16.04 (With Lynis)
Security audit in our case is am automatic technical assessment of our server and web applications in the context of security by performing security vulnerability scans, reviewing application and operating system access controls some softwares or scripts. At the ens, we will gather a software generated audit report. Here is how to perform security audits on Ubuntu 16.04 with Lynis and other tools … [Read more...]
Harden Apache2 Server’s Security (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
In previous guide, we written how to get started with a blank server, configure Apache for HSTS and how to configure IPTables. This guide is applicable for cloud, dedicated & virtual dedicated server. Here is a detailed guide on how to harden Apache2 server's security on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Harden Apache2 Server's Security (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) The default settings file … [Read more...]
Nginx IPV6 Reverse Proxy With SSL To Add IPV6 (Full Guide + Configs)
Previously we discussed about Nginx IPv6 reverse proxy with SSL to add IPV6 to IPV4 ONLYservers. In this guide we will write in an easy way the same matter in a way that any level of user who has no working experience with IPV6 can easily add own IPV6. Additionally we will give full working configurations. There are virtual servers like VPSDime or dedicated servers which does not cost a bomb … [Read more...]