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CentOS 7 – Converting your firewall from Firewalld to Iptables including fail2ban

29/12/2017

CentOS 7 firewall On Centos 7, the default firewall is firewalld. Even though this is just a shell interface to configure iptables, it has its limits when it comes to applying advanced rules and customizing your firewall. You can fix this by getting rid of firewalld and using only iptables rules. Do not uninstall firewalld as fail2ban […]

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Bash for Beginners

27/12/2017

BASH or the “Bourne-Again Shell” is the scripting language with which many Linux tasks are accomplished. It is an easy to use language and can be freely adapted and expanded which makes it extremely powerful. It enables us to write our own commands, making systems automation (when the computer does the boring tasks) very […]

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Setting up a simple firewall in Linux

26/12/2017

Basics In Linux, there are a few basic concepts that we need to understand before we start. Firewall rules are, in general, applied as they are read, from the top down. The best firewall DENIES ALL and only ALLOWS what is needed. OUTBOUND rules are generally more relaxed than INBOUND. A Policy is what gets […]

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Web Servers – Apache, NginX, What else?

20/12/2017

We are often so eager to use our new HostAfrica VPS that we jump in and use the default software that either comes with the VPS or that comes to mind. Through the years we have come to know the Apache/Httpd web server as the backbone of the internet. On Windows, it has always been IIS, […]

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Web servers – NginX Basics

20/12/2017

What is NginX? NginX (pronounced Engine-X or N-Jinx) is a high-performance web server designed to deliver large amounts of content quickly with the efficient use of system resources. NginX’s strong point is its ability to efficiently serve static content, like plain HTML and media files. It is especially good at handling many concurrent connections. Some consider it […]

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Web servers – Apache Server Basics

03/12/2017

Apache Server is one of the oldest web servers. Apache used to run only on Linux but is now available for Windows and OS/2 as well. The Apache Server has been around since 1995 and has played a major role in the development of the World Wide Web (WWW). It was based on the NCSA HTTPd server, […]

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