Introduction As technology continues to evolve rapidly, the future of web hosting is expected to transform significantly. Advancements in hardware capabilities – including powerful processors, massive RAM capacity, and high-performance storage : are reshaping how hosting environments operate. With increasing computing power, traditional problems such as server downtime, congestion, and performance limitations are gradually becoming less common. Modern innovations, including multi-core processing and distributed infrastructure, are already paving the way toward a more reliable hosting ecosystem. The Rise of SaaS in Web Hosting One of the biggest drivers shaping the future of hosting is Software as a Service (SaaS). SaaS allows applications to be delivered over the internet instead of being installed locally. Hosting providers are rapidly adopting this model …

About Cacti Cacti is a PHP/MySQL front end to rrdtool. It handles the storage of all the information required to create and populate rrdtool graphs. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and RoundRobin Archives in a DataBase, Cacti handles the data gathering also. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG. You can use Cacti to gather any sort of data or fetch information from SNMP capable hosts. To manually handle data gathering, you can feed Cacti the Command Line for any external script/command along with any data that the user will need to fill in (IP addresses etc). Cacti will then gather this data in a cron job and populate …

The Internet is not a secure place by default. Many early network protocols were designed without security in mind and transmit data, including passwords, in plain text. Because of this, tools that capture network traffic and extract sensitive information are commonly used by malicious attackers. Any application that sends unencrypted passwords over the network is therefore highly vulnerable. In addition, many client-server applications trust the client to identify users correctly or limit their own actions. If a client is compromised or modified, this trust can easily be abused, allowing unauthorized access or actions. Some organizations attempt to solve these problems using firewalls. While firewalls are useful, they are not a complete security solution. They often assume that threats come only …

  HISTORY Exim was written by Philip Hazel at the University of Cambridge in 1995. Written using the basic philosophy of Smail The name was derived from Experimental Internet Mailer as the outcome of the project at start was unknown. EXIM Exim is Open Source and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) It is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) INTERNET MAIL TRANSPORT AGENTS MTA Mail Transfer AgentMTA is a program used for transporting mail from one host to another. Messages sent from one host to another use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). MUA Mail User AgentThe program people most often use to send/receive mail are referred to as Mail UserAgents (MUAs). They exist to provide convenient mail …

RPM FORGE * RPM Forge is the 2nd party RPM repository * It is an independent community-driven project to provide the infrastructure and tools to allow users, developers and packagers to engage and work together to provide and to improve RPM packages. * This project already supports various Linux distributions and architectures and is fast expanding. The main contributors of RPMForge are: * Dag Wieers * Dries Verachtert * Matthias Saou * Jeff Pitman * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano * Bert de Bruijn

LVM HOWTO An Introduction This is an attempt to collect everything needed to know to get LVM up and running. The entire process of getting, compiling, installing, and setting up LVM will be covered. Pointers to LVM configurations that have been tested will also be included. This version of the HowTo is for LVM 2 with device-mapper and LVM 1.0.8. All previous versions of LVM are considered obsolete and are only kept for historical reasons. This document makes no attempt to explain or describe the workings or use of those versions. (more…)

Debian is a project-based around the development of a free, complete operating system based on the work of the GNU Project through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. The project’s primary focus, Debian GNU/Linux, is a popular Linux distribution. Debian is known for its adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies and for its abundance of options – the current release includes over fifteen thousand software packages for eleven computer architectures ranging from the ARM architecture commonly found in embedded systems and the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe architecture to the more common Intel x86 and AMD x86-64 architectures found in modern personal computers. Debian GNU/Linux is the basis for several other distributions, including Knoppix, Linspire, and Ubuntu. …