Monkey business for the geek in you!
According to a Nielsen//Netratings study, Google holds the top spot for search engine destinations. However, if you take a closer look at N//N’s findings, you see that Yahoo and MSN share the second and third positions, respectively. Because MSN search is still using Overture to serve their search results more people are vicariously using the…
Internet’s Key Oversight Board Gives Preliminary Approval to ‘.post’ and ‘.travel’
Check out those basic rules to avoid spam robots to use your email for spaming !
The theory goes something like this: The search engine Powers That Be have decided that if other sites are linking to your site, it must be a winner; therefore, it deserves a boost in rankings (when all else is equal). If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. People link to good…
Copywriting for search engines is one of the more important aspects of the SEO industry. Ensuring your content is relevant and keyword rich is an effective method to “impress” the search engines. By impress, I mean that the majority of search engines value optimized content with keyword-laden text. However, if you have too much keyword…
RKHunter also known as RootKit Hunter is a scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9% that you don’t have any rootkits, backdoors, and local exploits but running tests and e-mailing you results.
chkrootkit: shell script that checks system binaries for rootkit modification.
BFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures.
Telnet should be disabled, and you should use SSH. Telnet sends password in plain text, and ‘crackers/hackers’ can obtain these passwords easily compared to SSH, and then takeover your dedicated web server.
SSH Protocol 1 based systems are facing many automated “root kits”. As a result to step up the security Protcol 2 should be enabled as soon as possible.
Logwatch is a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your system’s logs for a given period of time and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify, in as much detail as you require. Logwatch is easy to use and will work right out of the package on most systems.
The choice between shared and dedicated hosting is a critical decision for website developers and administrators. Understanding the differences between these two types of hosting is essential for selecting the right hosting solution based on your needs, budget, and technical expertise. Here’s an in-depth comparison: Shared Hosting Shared hosting is a type of web hosting…
A managed dedicated server is either one you rent or one you co-locate where someone else is in charge of the well being of the server.
Renting or Co-Locating a dedicated server that is not managed takes a lot of time and knowledge. You must be familiar with the operating system your dedicated server will be running on, and by familiar I mean you must know the ins and outs of it completely.
A dedicated server is a computer(server) that only runs one type of server software. The server is usualy constructed or pre-configured to the customers specifications.
Search engines recognise that, if they can identify a heading it is very likely to be relevant to the body of text below it. In other words, headings are an opportunity to position keywords.
Disabling root login via shh is a great way to tigthen security on your dedicated server.
The dmoz directory is not a search engine. It’s a directory, like a phonebook. It has been categorizing the Internet since 1998. Dmoz currently has over 590,000 categories and sub categories. The main directory itself has sixteen main categories. All subcategories fall under these top sixteen. Imagine, everything in the known universe able to be…