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VPS (HyperVM) initial setup
I just purchased a VPS account from a local VPS provider (using HyperVM). The first thing I was to rebuild the VPS because it has LXAdmin installed by default. I want a lightweight VPS with everything...
View ArticleBIS-capable SSH client for BlackBerry
If you need an SSH client for BlackBerry, you can use MidpSSH. However, this client doesn’t allow you to use your BIS subscription. Luckily someone has modified MidpSSH to work over BIS. Once you have...
View ArticleMikroTik simple script to update ZoneEdit Dynamic DNS
I have a MikroTik router (RouterOS v4.x) with an ADSL connection at work, unfortunately it comes with dynamic public IP address. I need to connect to my office workstation or simply the MikroTik...
View Articleiptables mangle and NAT notes, etc.
PREROUTING in nat table: DNAT, REDIRECT POSTROUTING in nat table: SNAT/MASQUERADE PREROUTING in mangle table: alter routing (e.g. source-based routing) FORWARD in mangle table: traffic shaping for tc...
View ArticleIssues with NTP
If you wonder why your VPS or specifically OpenVZ VE’s ntpd is stuck at stratum 16 or stratum 0 while ntpq -p shows no abnormality (use ntpq -c rv to check state, it should say state=3 when abnormal),...
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Areca RAID cards and WDC desktop-class HDDs (non-RE)
First of all, avoid any green drives (including WDC RE-GP drives) at all cost for RAID setups. I have Areca’s ARC-1210 and ARC-1220 RAID cards installed on my Tyan servers (with S5397 and S5211...
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Facebook Page fan photos
In case you wonder why “Add Photos” link on your Facebook Page is no longer working as expected (directs you back to your Facebook Home), I believe it’s because they have changed the way fan photos...
View ArticleRecipient MX-based dnslookup routing for cPanel’s Exim
I host a few websites and emails for my friends and relatives on my cPanel server. I need to ensure that their emails don’t end up in Spam/Junk folder when they send to email addresses hosted on...
View ArticleDynamic DNS + tunnelbroker MikroTik script for HE.net (Hurricane Electric)
Note: Tested on MikroTik 6.2 /system script add name=he-dns policy=ftp,read,write,policy,test,winbox,api source=”# Update Hurricane Electric DDNS IPv4 address\r\ \n\r\ \n#make sure previousip is...
View ArticleCentOS / CloudLinux 6 locale issue
When you use Terminal to ssh into a freshly installed CentOS / CloudLinux 6, you would encounter this: -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory There...
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VMware ESXi on OVH.com’s dedicated server, additional IPv4 subnet, and native...
I have finally migrated my server from LeaseWeb to OVH. LeaseWeb wouldn’t provide me with a reasonable offer after being a loyal customer for 3 years so I terminated my server there. I came across...
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