Severe Server Crash

I have just finished recovering data from a severe server crash.  This was a bad one that started out with the server eating all of the memory.  I had to do a recompile of Apache and PHP and restore from a back-up.  As far as I can tell all services are running as they where before the crash.  Sorry for any inconvenience this day and a half server issue might have caused you.

Phase Two Complete

Both of my personal blogs have now been integrated into madberry.org. Me.madberry.org and hyves.madberry.org are both now pointing to madberry.org with a 301 redirect. It’s all part of my plan to redesign, re-brand and refocus. Sorry for the old blogpost spam on Facebook and Twitter I totally forgot that would happen. Me.madberry.org can now be found under the Personal category.  Hyves.madberry.org can now be found under the Hyves category (dutch posts only).

Searching For A Low Spam Solution

I have found myself in spam hell the last couple of months.  Not so much because of my laptop or desktops, they all run spamassassin.  No it’s the Peek my mobile e-mail and text device.  I got rid of my cellphone at the beginning of this year, I wasn’t really using it to call with anymore.  The Peek is a great device but they don’t do an spam catching, which is great because I wouldn’t want them to.

I did find these scripts from ConfigServer Services.  The offer this script for free.  In addition you can buy the front-end add-on for cPanel.  This is only $35 for a server license which I think is pretty cheap for what you get. I already run some of the other scripts they provide.  They are a trusted source for not only free scripts but server configuration services as well. There website is also a great source for several cPanel related articles.

MailScanner, the scritp the above script installs does use SpamAssassin and ClamAV for spam and virus detection.  I will have to monitor what this will do to mainly my memory on the server.  I don’t really want to drive up the cost of hosting, and having to increase memory because of SpamAssassin could do this.

Bright Hub Page Redesign

With the amount of articles steadily growing a redesign of the Bright Hub page was eminent.  I decided to redesign this page before the blog redesign.  I will be redesigning the blog first before re-branding it.

How To Manage Passwords In Linux

Let’s face it we all live an Online life we visit many websites in a day, most of which have a login. We need to remember these different passwords and usernames, we know using the same credentials on several website is not save. You wouldn’t want a malicious person to gain access to all of your online account.

There are ways to save a password and username, no I don’t mean write them down on a piece of paper or in a spreadsheet, password managers are keepers of sensitive information. All of them use some sort of encryption to keep data save. We have several option to choose from some are even cross-platform compatible, for those ninjas that also need to work in Windows or Mac sometimes.