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Are Chinese Hackers really Chinese?

8. September 2007

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There has been recent news tagging China as one of the leading countries who hack into US government computers to get information about British military secrets. According to the news, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army tried to get information from the office of US Defense Secretary, Robert Gates. US President Bush also intended to confront [...]

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CPanel and WHM shows a blank page - Restart CPanel

20. May 2007

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Sometimes high server loads of different kinds can shutdown various services on your server. Depending on what processor, and memory you have, every server acts differently. If you have a dedicated server or co-located server and is running CPanel, you sometimes come into situations where the server seems to work fine but no one can [...]

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Maximizing Email Server Space by Riding on Google’s Gmail Service

20. May 2007

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One way to save space on your web hosting account and have a large email box is simply using Gmail’s service but still use your personalize domain name email account. Things are getting bigger now a days, hard disk, memory and processor speeds keep on increasing due to the demands of softwares with increasing required [...]

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Apache Recompiling with PHP4 to PHP5 Upgrade Problems

26. November 2006

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This is an on going post as you read this right now, I will edit it as I go on. I have just upgraded my PHP4.4.1 to PHP5.2.0 on a cPanel server using the WHM Apache Update. So far I have encountered the following problems: AddType .html extensions for PHP - error 500. Problem: This does not work [...]

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Enabling Wildcard DNS on CPanel Servers

13. April 2006

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In some cases, you will want a subdomain to be the same as the homepage of a website. For example: http://www.domain.com http://sub.domain.com http://whatever.domain.com http://something.domain.com http://anything.domain.com will all show the same page. Even if you just invented one subdomain up, it will still show the same page, the homepage. Err, hmmm what’s the use of that? Well for some this is totally [...]

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Email Contact Form Spamming

13. February 2006

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My company has been experiencing a large amount of email contact form spams recently which is on the second wave af attack. The first wave was sometime mid-2005. What these hacking people are doing are simply adding some email headers in the email form, like: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; MIME-Version: 1.0 From: random@whateverdomain.com bcc: spammed@email1.com, spammed@email2.com, spammed@email3.com The can probably try to add [...]

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Accidental Delete - DNS Zones in CPanel/WHM, gave me problems in deleting user accounts on Redhat Linux

30. January 2006

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How my problem with CPanel/WHM started There are several web hosting account administration softwares like Plesk, Ensim and CPanel. I have tried Plesk before and I am quite happy with CPanel right now. CPanel’s Web Host Manager (WHM) is pretty cool but I noticed everything that is related to deleting something, it does not ask you [...]

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