Yahoo Domain Hosting 3X the Price

Originally when I started buying domains from Yahoo the cost was around 10$ per year. Then it went up to 13$ per year. Now with the recent financial crisis around the world, Yahoo has decided to tripple their yearly fees TO 34$ yer pear. I am either cancelling my domains at warp speed, or contemplating transferring them to Go Daddy for a fraction of the price. Technically I can host them from my house, but I get nervous with the dynamic IP address provided by Optimum online. I haven’t had an IP address change in a long time, and for all practical purposes without the modem being offline for a long time the IP address rarely ever changes.

Overall I am going to cancel as many domains as I can, thus eliminating many of my websites. I am going to remove the websites that do not receive many hits, ect… I will keep my main website, which I plan to have my entire life. I also will keep this domain, because I have many websites consolidated into it, as well as this blog which I cherish as a means of venting and documentation. Maybe I will transfer some domains to Go Daddy, I have a couple of things to think about before the critical date that Yahoo wants payment before it stops hosting the domains.

DOS and Brute Force Prevention Using Fail2ban

Dealing with dos and brute force attacks can be a daunting challenge. You can manually adjust your firewall to block particular ip addresses, but why not automate the process? What if a program can monitor your authentication, and other log files for suspicious activity? In these log files is a tremendous amount of info about failed login attempts, and how many times an ip address connects to your web server. Using this information a program can automatically adjust your firewall to block the offending ip addresses.

Fail2ban does just this. The program automatically monitors the log files of many programs. Most important is apache, and ssh.

http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

iPhone Settings Rundown - Instant VPN Configuration

iPhone Configuration

Step 1: Click the settings button

Step 2: Click the general options menu

Step 3: Click the network menu

Step 4: Click the VPN menu

Step 5: Click the settings menu

JanusVM works with PPTP, therefore use this tab. In the server section add the external ip address of your home machine. If you have a domain name pointing to your external ip address you can also enter that here. If you have a router you will have to use “port forwarding” to forward port 1723 to the ip address of the local machine running JanusVM. In JanusVM option 4 allows you to create users, and passwords. Configure JanusVM according to your liking.

Back to the iPhone.

Step 6: In the account section add the username that you configure in option 4 of JanusVM

Step 7: For “RSA SecurID” turn it off.

Step 8: In the password section add the password you set in option 4 of JanusVM

Step 9: JanusVM requires your iPhone encryption level to be set to “maximum”

Step 10: Set your iPhone to “send all traffic” through the VPN

Remeber, to configure JanusVM you will actually have to boot the virtual machine first. The list of option are automatically displayed once fully booted. I recommend using a static local ip address; if you choose dynamic you will most likely get a different ip address each time you boot JanusVM. This will be a pain, because you will have to adjust the “port forwarding” option in your router as per the local ip address of your JanusVM instance. If anyone has any questions just post a commend. I’ll help get you running ASAP.

Bridge and Default Eth Same IP

When configuring your network, bridges, and taps you want your default Ethernet card to have the same static ip address as the bridge you create in /etc/network/interfaces. Doing so you will have internet access on the host and guest systems. Within the guest system configure the interfaces to be one numerical value higher in order to avoid conflict with the host.

Server Transfer to New Location - New IP

This feat requires at least 2 computers. You can duplicate the entire server environment on the second computer, set the computer up at the second location, change the IP address associated with the domain name, and viola turn off the main computer at the original IP once the IP re-configuration is complete.

I’m not quire sure if your original IP address will remain active while the new IP address is being configured. Basically I do not know if uptime will be seamless; I hope it will

Fedora 8 Ubuntu Gutsy IP Address

To get your external IP address go to the following http address in a web browser:

http://www.whatismyip.com

If you are behind a router, you can configure your router to provide a particular local IP address. This would be configured in the LAN IP setup menu. This is a convenient feature for applying a particular IP address to a machine with a particular MAC address.

The IP address of your machine is configured in the administrator>>network panel. You can switch between DHCP and static ip. These parameters are typically configured during installation, and DHCP is the default. For most configurations DHCP is the easiest choice, as your router is most likely setup by default as a DHCP server. A static IP only really comes in handy with web servers, and when you have to turn off the router DHCP server because of conflict with a software DHCP server.

Secure Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Web Server Wordpress

I have had success avoiding hackers, and other threats with use of a completely up to data Ubuntu system, a hardware based firewall, and an up to date Wordpress installation. I feel that the most important security aspect of a server is keeping the software up to date, and once this criteria is met the addition of a hardware firewall will close all unnecessary ports further reducing threats. With all unused ports closed, and the only ones open are being monitors by the corresponding server applications;/ therefore the systems security is based on the hard work of the programmers to keep their server software up to date. I have no doubt in their incredible capabilities, as Apache, Mysql, and PHP are relatively powerful while secure applications.

By the way, most routers have a built in firewall. Any router that requires port forwarding has a firewall that is active. Port forwarding punches a hole through the firewall, while directing a particular external port to a specific local IP address.