Archive for the ‘Technical’ Category

Installing and customizing a SA-MP (San Andreas Multiplayer) server

Description
San Andreas Multiplayer (abbreviated to SA:MP) is a third party multiplayer modification for the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas computer game. San Andreas Multiplayer is developed by a team of dedicated fans of the Grand Theft Auto series of video games, who work on their own spare time developing SA:MP as a hobby.

Posted on July 7, 2010

FreeBSD 6 vs FreeBSD 8

FreeBSD 8 was launched in November 2009. A new version was greatly modified, many bugs were fixed. This version has much more advantages in comparison with old ones.

It is an advanced solution for both FreeBSD users and developers. FreeBSD 8 provides you with a wide range of useful tools for hosting servers’ management.

Posted on April 16, 2010

Protection server SSH Dictionary Attacks

If you run a Linux VPS, you’ll notice that bots will try to gain illegitimate access to your server through ssh. While this unsettles a lot of people, there’s really nothing to worry about as long as you don’t permit root logins (Many Linux distributions allow direct root login via ssh by default) and have [...]

Posted on April 6, 2010

Installing OpenVPN server on CentOS Linux (part3)

The configuration is similar to the process used for Debian, except for the beginning of the installation process.
Since the package is not included into the CentOS repository, you need to enable RPMforge (http://rpmrepo.net/RPMforge) to install OpenVPN.

Posted on March 23, 2010

Installing OpenVPN on a Debian Linux (part2)

Order a server with this operating system; submit a ticket to the technical support to enable the module (if necessary) and support the NAT.
With the server activated, log in using the SSH-protocol, for example a PuTTY SSH-client.

Posted on March 23, 2010

Installing and configuring a VPN-server with OpenVPN (part1)

The following articles describes how to install an OpenVPN server on a Linux-based virtual private server VPS from JoinVPS and configure client connection from a computer that operates on Windows Vista.
OpenVPN is a virtual private network technology (VPN) for creating encoded tunnels between server and client computers.
One of the advantages of this technology is [...]

Posted on March 23, 2010

New feature in BILLmanager

In a new version of BILLmanager, that allows you to manage your account, there is a new feature called “User menu”.
This toolbar is located below the BILLmanager logo.

Posted on February 27, 2010

Software installation from ports

How to install the software on a virtual private server. General provisions
How to view the list of the software installed
How to install a program from the ports
How to delete the installed program

Posted on February 12, 2010

Compare operation modes of the PHP-scripts interpreter.

- PHP as Apache module
- PHP as CGI
- PHP as FastCGI
You can set up PHP operation mode for a web-site via Domains – WWW domains- Properties- PHP, if all these modes are allowed for a www-domain owner.

Posted on January 29, 2010