Enable hardware crypto acceleration on your Via Nano dedi
VIA PadLock Advanced Cryptography Engine (VIA PadLock ACE) is a technology used in many VIA processors that provides very fast hardware encryption and decryption. Via Nano used in Online.net...
View ArticleCreating a Runabove CDN
Runabove has recently added CNAME support to its object storage systems, and as a result, it can be converted into a CDN. You will need a GeoIP-capable DNS provider and a Runabove account. Steps:...
View ArticleIPSEC VPN with CentOS 7
This is a guide on setting up an IPSEC VPN server with CentOS 7 using StrongSwan as the IPsec server and for authentication. It has a detailed explanation with every step. We choose the IPSECP protocol...
View Article[Tutorial] Build Your Ultimate Scrambled VPN
This guide is for those who live or travel in a country with very strict internet control. For example, China use the Great Firewall to actively seek out VPN connections and block VPN servers. The GFW...
View ArticleHTTP Public Key Pinning Extension (HPKP) for Apache, NGINX and Lighttpd
Public Key Pinning means that a certificate chain must include a whitelisted public key. It ensures only whitelisted Certificate Authorities (CA) can sign certificates for *.example.com, and not any CA...
View ArticleReclaim some free space on your server 'with this weird trick' (KVM/Xen/dedi...
Before: # df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 146G 871M 138G 1% / Applying the setting (replace '/dev/sda2' with your actual partition name): # tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda2 tune2fs...
View Article[DEBIAN] monkeyServer.sh :: A Script to install a full web stack at LEBs in 5...
monkeyServer.sh monkeyServer.sh is a simple shell script made to install a full web stack at low end boxes in about 5 minutes. It is built on top of Monkey Web Server, a really simple but feature rich...
View ArticleSPI - Squid Proxy Installer (incl Authentication)
Squid Proxy Installer (SPI) is a fully automated Squid 3 proxy installer shell script. It's build on top of Squid 3.x and NSCA authentication together with htpasswd from Apache. The script installs...
View ArticleWhy OpenVPN is so slow? (cool story)
From time to time, I see people asking for help on forums, who have connected 2 remote sites via OpenVPN and have an awful speed compared to link speed, like 400 Kbit/s with 2 Mbit/s link or 20 Mbit/s...
View ArticleGet all IP ranges from an AS number
One of my clients wanted to block a few social networking websites. Since they have no IPv6 (yet) I figured the simplest way was to block access to the entire IP range. This won't work for all the CDN...
View ArticleConnecting to VPN.sh in DD-WRT
Hello all I have been trying to connect my DD-WRT router to VPN.sh service fromt he past couple of days and finally managed to pull it off today. I thought this script may be useful to someone who is...
View ArticleOVH Windows Server 2012 R2 remote desktop setup
I just bought a cheap Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS on OVH's RunAbove, but I don't know how to properly setup remote desktop. I've enabled remote desktop in Control Panel > System and Security >...
View ArticleYes you can use the whole /64 of IPv6 on OVH's Kimsufi
Just a quick heads up to those who bought one the latest Kimsufi servers. These servers are advertised to come with a /128 of IPv6 (one address). However this address follows a specific format:...
View ArticleInstall a SoYouStart or Kimsufi server using an ISO image using VNC
If you don't want to shell out money for getting temporary access to a physical KVM adapter you could try to use QEMU to boot the server in an virtual environment in OVH's rescue mode instead. Check it...
View ArticleOpenVZ/Proxmox pre-backup dump all container script
This simple script creates a vzdump of all the OpenVZ containers on a machine. It can be used before an actual backup, in my case the actual backup excludes the container path /var/lib/vz/private. This...
View ArticleInstalling & configuring KVM on OVH with SolusVM
I have seen many hosts & other individuals who want to setup KVM with OVH servers having lot of difficulties because the gateways & routing of network interfaces is different in OVH's network....
View ArticleSetup your own DNS and HAProxy based Netflix/Hulu Tunnel
In this tutorial i will be explaining how to setup your own DNS and HAProxy based Netflix and Hulu Tunnel. You no longer need a VPN or Proxy configured at your device anymore to watch USA based Netflix...
View ArticleKVM SolusVM Templates
Hi guys, I'm learning how to setup KVM nodes with solusvm. With this being said, I'm able to boot the KVM VPS, create it, etc, but I'm unable to use the TDN templates from solusvm. I've already...
View ArticleAnd here we are, install script Hiawatha-PHP-FPM-MariaDB Debian x32/x64
Hi all, I posted before about this script, but i made a lot of updates and i replaced Percon MySql 5.6 with MariaDB 5.5. Percona is good solution for professional system administrators. Last version...
View ArticleInstall Windows on Kimsufi - Works on ALL Kimsufi Servers - Updated
Hi everyone! A few weeks ago I got the Windows Server Templates to work on All Kimsufi servers (2008 R2 & 2012 R2). Which you can download right here:...
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