Quick & Easy Nginx Load Balancer with Backend
This will be a very quick and easy example. Sometimes you may need to use Nginx as a front end, webcache, load balancer or front…
Anonymous FTP on Ubuntu 12.04 Server with VSFTPD
I know that basic FTP is not ideal and not secure. But it is widely supported and used, and sometimes if we’re moving around large…
Pyrit Benchmark for Raspberry Pi
I’ve been playing with my Raspberry Pi quite a bit lately, it’s a wonderful bit of kit. If you don’t have one already go and…
How to Install AVG Anti Virus on Ubuntu Server
Although in my experience Linux is much less susceptible to malware, it would be unfair to say that they are completely secure. Even if a…
Backing Up All MySQL Databases Individually using Cron
If we’ve got a whole pile of databases on a server, it’s possible that not all of them will change regularly. If we’re backing up…
A Tinyproxy Transparent Installation on Ubuntu 12.04 with HTTPS Support
[alert style=”red”]Update: It appears as of June 2013 that the Ubuntu repositories now have compiled Tinyproxy with transparent support. So unless you want to build from source…
Nginx Not Showing Client IP and Varnish Not Forwarding Client IP
I came across a setup using numerous Varnish front end cache servers with one Nginx backend server. All built on Ubuntu machines. It appeared that…
How to Block Ads on iPhone and iPad Jailbreak Free
[alert style=”red”] Disclaimer – This walkthrough involves equipment other than your iPhone or iPad in order to work! [/alert] This will also probably work on…
How to Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu
Looking through my servers logs I noticed that I was attracting quite a lot of vulnerability scanners trying to access my phpMyAdmin directory. Being ever the…
Tinyproxy A Quick and Easy Proxy Server on Ubuntu
As much as I think that a fully blown Squid Proxy sat on a network working as a Proxy server and giving virus and content…