Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
You’ve probably happened across this page because your website, or server, is continually being hammered with a barrage of bullshit requests from random IP’s within Amazon’s EC2 address space. They Continue Reading…
If you click into Plesk and find your Domains list is empty, but Subscriptions is still populating, then chances are you have some orphaned domain aliases. If, however, both the Continue Reading…
I’m really getting sick of dealing with downed web servers that result from DDoS attacks from Amazon EC2 space where the user agent is always the Typhoeus client. Amazon of course Continue Reading…
If you’ve ever dealt with web servers that have sites running wordpress, you’ve probably dealt with hacked php scripts since pretty much any server running wordpress is going to have Continue Reading…
It’s possible to get WordPress to help you with a reflective DDoS attack using the pingback feature. For additional info, see https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Wordpress+Pingback+DDoS+Attacks/17801/ In any case, here’s a quick perl script Continue Reading…
Simple and to the point; query the db for domains with email enabled. This is only tested on Plesk 11.5:
If you use MySQL as part of your web hosting operation, which of course everyone does, you’ve probably run into your share of requests from customers to restore data. This Continue Reading…
So you are trying to wean your users off of using FTP for obvious reasons, but your FTP server was at least doing chroot’ing which was nice for keeping them Continue Reading…
Do you ever run into this issue? You need to reconfigure networking and do a network restart and this happens: That duplicate ip address check takes a LONG time. On Continue Reading…
Here’s the scenario; a website gets slow, or server gets slow, or you simply notice a ton of random connections to a site that normally is not that busy. You Continue Reading…