Hey All just a quick post on WordPress authentication keys You may have noticed that in the newer versions of WordPress that in the WP-config.php file there is a block of code asking for key passphrases. That is to support encrypted cookies for your users when they log in if you don’t generate the keys […]
Hello everyone Sorry I have been away for a while life has been crazy I have a new addition to the family ! My son was born on Christmas day 2018 what an adventure it has been so far I plan to be back to my regular blogger/YouTuber self after some time to take it […]
I have been playing around with the SwiftStack platform lately here is some info I got so far SwiftStack is an object storage platform similar to Amazon S3 but caters to data center operators or companies that require large amounts of data storage where AWS S3 may not be an economical option SwiftStack differs from […]
Sysctl is a module built into Linux that allows you to modify the kernel attributes in this example I am using. Sysctl to enable SYN-cookies an effective mitigation against SYN attacks. On your Linux system the sysctl configuration file is located at /etc/sysctl.conf to do this add the following to the sysctl.conf file […]
My educational focus for the last few months has been on CLOUD I recently completed my AWS exams, and now I am working on getting Azure certified. To my delight, EDX/Microsoft has paired up for a certification program with an awesome concept rather than just take the test and saying hey I’m certified you take […]
Auditing and checking your server to ensure that it is compliant based on your configuration and also ensuring total security is key. Many administrators get locked up with working on day-to-day tasks that sometimes this very important task goes undone. Here are some tools that can help automate auditing and also provide monitoring of your […]
You may have seen services offered from cloud vendors labeled as “Micro-Services” but what exactly are these services?. Microservices are “BlackBox” solutions from providers such as AWS and Azure these services such as RDS (Relational Database Service) from AWS provide full-featured Database services, but the management is abstracted from the user you don’t […]
Linux/Unix utilizes run-levels to enable certain functionality from single user mode to GUI mode these run-levels cater to different needs for system administrators and for troubleshooting You can set a default run level to say boot to the CLI instead of the GUI. On servers, you generally would use run level 3 which is the […]
On Linux and Unix systems there are many ways of finding system details and current system stats. Some of the most commonly used commands are TOP, freemem, free etc., but there is another way to find this information. Actually, you can pull this information from the exact place the commands above pull it from. […]
Apache is a wonderful web-server you can do just about anything with it, but there are some tweaks you can implement to make your webpage faster. Enabling browser caching on your server sends a message to the browser to you guessed it cache some of the page elements for next time. This results in faster […]
If you are running the newer versions of solaris you may be tempted to use the old ways where you edit the resolv.conf file to set up your DNS DO NOT DO THIS ! Oracle wants you to be using the SMF ( Service Management Facility ) to be making such changes instead using the following […]
Hey Everyone I have changed a few things about my blog page one of them very obvious I changed the theme around. I have been running this page for 8 years now! And I always had the same type of theme . I decided it was time for a face lift let me know […]
Hello Everyone!, Sorry for being MIA it’s been crazy busy for me lately So sometimes I get asked how you can manage users on the UTM for things like the User Portal without creating local accounts, so my answer is either Active directory or LDAP. I have already showed how to set up the AD […]
I get asked a lot about how to create a home and what hardware is required? The truth is you don’t need to start out here is a pic of my home closet super-duper data center ….it’s not a data center lol Here it is in all its glory my Lab I have done […]
So I had an issue today with my main lab server I have multiple subnets in my lab some that can reach the Internet some are strictly internal I have an Ubuntu server that I want to connect to 2 subnets one is connected to my fast Gigabit network while the other is connected to […]