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Monthly Archives: April 2008

SHV5 rootkit

I am posting this as this image was in my desktop for years. I want to delete it, so thought of adding it to blog. In 2006, one of my linux server got hacked. Most will tell you need OS


SWsoft Acquires Helm Control Panel

I have been using HELM control panel on my Windows servers from start. Today i was moving one of my windows server from ThePlanet to Softlayer. The HELM license used in the server was expired and i was not able


varnish reverse proxy server

Many large web sites use reverse proxy servers in front end. For example flicker use squid in reverse proxy mode, wordpress use varnish in front end. Varnish was written from the ground up to be a high performance caching reverse


Make Your Own Website Like Youtube

If you want to make a clone of youtube for yourself, then this is really simple and possible where you can put your favorite videos and can make good money from your website. Youtube is a big site and it


Microsoft can buy Yahoo even if they don’t want to sell

See letter send by Microsoft to Yahoo. If Microsoft want, they can approach share holders of yahoo and pay them well to sell their shares, having the Yahoo shares on hand, Microsoft will get control of Yahoo. Lets wait and


optimizing lighttpd for file hosting

On one of my server, i have 50 Mbps unmetered connection, but maximum bandwidth the server was able to push was 30 Mbps average. After some search i found this is due to i use “linux-sendfile” as server.network-backend. This is


How to install CPAN libwww-perl

When installing csf firewall on a server, i got error libwww-perl not installed. I installed it with yum on CentOS 5 yum install perl-libwww-perl


lighttpd upgraded to 1.5

I have upgraded lighttpd 1.4 to latest 1.5 version. lighttpd-1.5.0 – a light and fast webserver Build-Date: Apr 6 2008 17:06:07 After the upgrade, server load is 50% less now. [root@server24 lighttpd]# uptime 17:31:16 up 3 days, 15:49, 1 user,


Youtube Server Configuration

Today i was reading a lot on how to web server scalability, mostly due to my lighttpd web server is above load level 1 most of the time. I found an interesting video that talks about youtube server setup and


lighttpd high server load

I have write about bandwidth usage of new server 2 days back. Today, bandwidth usage reached 50 Mbps average. But the problem is server load is at 1 all the time. I hope the server will be able to handle