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If you’re virtualizing DirectAdmin on a XenServer installation, you may wish to add additional ip addresses to the xenserver hypervisor as a gateway before proceeding. However, adding an additional IP to DirectAdmin from a different subnet gateway is also quite similar. Using the DirectAdmin control panel to add a new ip address only works if the …
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Having a backup server (or any other server) behind a dynamic IP is quite common; and for us it’s no different. Which of course we treat this off-site server like any other – it must communicate with our master servers through a strict set of firewall rules. (We can’t put enough emphasis on the importance …
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As a system administrator, one of the most useful tools you can use is the Linux ‘screen’ command. This allows multiple virtual terminals to be accessed from one physical terminal (typically via remote SSH). Whether you call it tabs, screens, or windows – this is a must have tool. Even if you don’t need multiple …
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The Zend ionCube Loader is basically used to “decrypt” (or better, de-ionCube) PHP scripts and files that were originally encoded with separate encoding software – as means of either copy protection (primarily) or the inability to browse the source code for back doors and security flaws. It’s by no means a secure method in protecting …
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