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Softaculous

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:45:25 -0700

This is to announce that Installatron has been replaced by Softaculous for ALL shared hosting due to its massive coverage on scripts.

regards,
Aizal

Server Maintenance 0600 UTC

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:32:08 -0700

This is to announce that we will run a server maintenance as part as our routine check starting at 0600 UTC. Minor downtime is expected.

regards,
Aizal

HOW-TO: Harden A Fresh CentOS 5.x Server

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:13:00 -0700

#!/bin/sh

set -ve

# Script to harden a fresh CentOS 4 or 5 base server install, which installs

# any updated packages plus a few useful extras, removes unnecessary

# services and setuid bits, and does a little performance tuning. Running it more than once shouldn't hurt anything.

#

# Run with:

Code:

wget -O- http://ftp.die.net/pub/harden-centos/harden-centos | sh

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

# Update rpm and yum if possible. (Limit dependencies.)

Code:

yum -y install rpm yum

# Installing useful packages

Code:

yum -y install joe tcpdump mtr postfix strace zsh gdb perl vixie-cron logrotate

# Removing unnecessary daemons and setuid binaries

Code:

yum -y remove squid krb5-workstation cups at rsh sudo isdn4k-utils sendmail \

slocate apmd irda-utils mt-st gpm samba-common sendmail-cf talk \

up2date ypbind yp-tools wvdial lockdev procmail xorg-x11-font-utils \

pam_ccreds gdm bluez-utils yum-updatesd

# Upgrading to latest packages

Code:

yum -y upgrade

# Removing unnecessary setuid bits

Code:

find / /usr -xdev -type f -perm +04000 | \

grep -vP '^(/bin/(su|ping|traceroute)|/usr/bin/(passwd|chsh|crontab)|/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-keysign)$' | \

xargs -r chmod ug-s

# Removing unnecessary setgid bits

Code:

find / /usr -xdev -type f -perm +02000 | \

grep -vP '^(/usr/sbin/(utempter|postdrop|postqueue)|/usr/bin/ssh-agent)$' | \

xargs -r chmod g-s

# Setting nosuid,nodev on user partitions, noatime on ext2 and ext3

Code:

perl -i~ -p -e 's/(\sext[23]\s+)(defaults)(?=\s)/$1$2,noatime/;next if m#\s/(?:usr|bin)?\s#;next unless m#\s(ext[23]|tmpfs|auto)\s#;s/(?<=\s)(defaults(?:,noatime)?)(?=\s

)/$1,nosuid,nodev/' /etc/fstab

# Adding blackhole routes for bogons

Code:

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-lo ] || cat < /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-lo

blackhole 0.0.0.0/8

blackhole 10.0.0.0/8

blackhole 169.254.0.0/16

blackhole 172.16.0.0/12

blackhole 192.168.0.0/16

blackhole 198.18.0.0/15

EOF

# Add useful settings to /etc/sysctl.conf

Code:

grep -q kernel.panic /etc/sysctl.conf || cat<> /etc/sysctl.conf

# Reboot a minute after an Oops

Code:

kernel.panic = 60

# Syncookies make SYN flood attacks ineffective

Code:

net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1

# Ignore bad ICMP

Code:

net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1

net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1

# Reply to ARPs only from correct interface (required for DSR load-balancers)

Code:

net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2

net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1

EOF

sysctl -p

# Allow any following commands to fail without stopping

Code:

set +e

# Shutting down unwanted services

Code:

for d in acpid rpcidmapd rpcgssd nfslock netfs portmap avahi-daemon avahi-dnsconfd pcscd bluetooth; do

chkconfig $d off

service $d stop

done

# Turn on cron-based auto-updates

Code:

yum -y install yum-cron

for d in crond yum yum-cron; do

chkconfig $d on

service $d start

done

# COMPLETED!

Thanks to webicero for creating this guides.
For more informations and guides about harndening and securing your server, you may also read the guides in SecureCentOS.com

OpenVZ OS Templates Update

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:37:34 -0700

We recently updated our OS templates on the main node. Here is the list of the available OS templates for you to choose from:

centos-5-i386-afull.tar.gz 122.4M
centos-5-i386-hostinabox576.tar.gz 373.9M
centos-5.4-i386-default.tar.gz 94.8M
debian-5-i386-default.tar.gz 54.6M
debian-5-i386-minimal.tar.gz 54.5M
fedora-11-i386-default-20100412.tar.gz 162.9M
fedora-12-i386-default-20100412.tar.gz 174.4M
fedora-core-10-i386-default.tar.gz 87.7M
fedora-core-10-i386-minimal.tar.gz 87.7M
gentoo-20060317-i686-stage3.tar.gz 106.5M
opensuse-10-i386-default.tar.gz 90.3M
ubuntu-8.04-i386-default.tar.gz 47.4M
ubuntu-9.04-i386-default.tar.gz 59.5M

You can rebuild your server's OS within your HyperVM control panel.
Please be aware that rebuilding your server will DELETE your files permanently. Please make sure you have your files backed up somewhere safe before proceeding.

Server Routine Check Phase 3 (03042010)

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:26:24 -0700

Please note that a routine check will be commenced on April 03rd 2010 at 12 midnight (GMT+8). This will include updating kernel to the latest, upgrading OS, reassessed the server to hardened and patch vulnerabilities.

regards,
Aizal

You can now pay via Moneybookers

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:27:39 -0800

Hello, ElevatedServers.net is now accepting payments from Moneybookers. More payment processors will be added soon too.

regards,
Aizal

Server Routine Check Phase 2 (15102009)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:44:45 -0700

Please note that a routine check will be commenced on October 15th 2009 at 12 midnight (GMT+8).

regards,
Aizal

Elevated September Promotion - Not only 25% off, we add another 10% lifetime!

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:37:08 -0700

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Security Routine Check 11092009

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:55:18 -0700

On Friday, 11th September 2009 (GMT+8), we ran a small routine of server firewall and security check. Server was brought down a few minutes and was brought back up and now running smoothly.

This is the first phase of our routine check. The next phase of checks will be announced a few days before commencing.

regards,
Aizal

Setting up Kloxo for Websites

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:04:08 -0700

Now before trying to use Kloxo, update to the latest version but clicking the Kloxo Management table along the top of your control panel and clicking the Update Home icon. This will forward you to the update function of Kloxo and display the version number installed and the current version available. Simply click update if these do not match. The update task is very quick and should complete within 5 minutes.

Now you are ready to login to the Kloxo interface at https://your-vps-ipaddress:7777 or http://your-vps-ipaddress:7778

Before anything else, the first thing you should do is to create a DNS Template. Look for DNS Templates icon in the resources section, once you clicked it, click on the Add DNS Template button. This will need you to specify your DNS Template name and specify what nameservers will be used for sites hosted within your VPS. The task should be similar at most registrars, you will need to create 2 nameservers, but you only have 1 IP and it is perfectly acceptable to create more than 1 registered nameserver using the same IP address. The IP you will use is the IP of your VPS. The name of the nameserver, or FQDN, will be something like ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com. After all these has been done, you can save your template and you are ready to add sites.

Elevated Debut Giveaway Contest

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:12:03 -0700

Elevated Debut Giveaway Contest

Ok it’s finally time to launch our idea which was planned a while back. We are now officially announcing the launch of our Elevated Debut Giveaway Contest where we will be giving away prizes worth $2345.40. The first thing we would like to giveaway to our readers for free is an annual subscription of Budget-1 VPS worth $309.72. This followed by 2x annual subscription of our HP-2 Reseller Hosting worth $1018.08 and 5x annual subscription of our Value Shared Hosting VL2 plan worth $1017.60. Please read the rules before you participate.

Contest Rules & Regulations
To participate in the competition and be eligible for winning one of the above prizes worth $2345.40, you will have to use one of the following ways.
[UPDATED] As to comply with Twitter policy, we are now changing our contest method. Please see below:

Follow our Twitter @elevatedservers and tweet any message that contains related information to this contest with a link to our contest page http://www.elevatedservers.net/contest

Use the exact tweet as given above, or click on this tweet link to tweet about this contest. Once you have tweeted about it, post inside this thread and leave your comment with a link to your status. (10 points)
Write a blog post linking to any of our hosting plan and other services we offered and about this contest in your blog post. Once you have written the blog post, post inside this thread with a link to the post. (20 points)
- Twitter account with at least 5 followers.
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You must have a blog and a twitter account to participate in this contest.
You must register on our forum to be eligible for this contest. We will email the winners using the email address registered on our forum.
This contest will end on 15th June at 12PM GMT+8, no entries will be accepted after this point, we will announce the winners in this post shortly after the contest closes.
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Remote Desktop

Tue, 19 May 2009 04:33:33 -0700

For this tutorial, you will need YUM installed on your vps. This is tutorial is a step by step guide on installing the KDE window manager. Original tutorial by Sean Koons of zone.net and Caleb who post a this enhanced version over webmaster forum. Make sure you have at least 128MB of unused ram to allocate for VNC. Using this on a highly used cpanel VPS can cause spikes in RAM usage and possibly kill needed processes.

You might as well need to disable APF (if you use one). To stop APF, type "service apf stop" in SSH. To start it, type "service apf start". (without quotes)

1. First login as root to your server and run the following:
"yum -y groupinstall kde" (replace kde with gnome for gnome install)
"yum -y install vnc vnc-server firefox x11-xorg"

2. Start up the vnc server with the 'vncserver' command and it will prompt you to enter a desired password. Just type what you want to use in and then confirm it.

3. Type in "pkill -9 vnc" followed by "rm -rf /tmp/.X1*"
Note: rm -rf /tmp/.X1 = delete the temp sockets created by the vncserver startup

4. Type in "cd /root/.vnc/" and then open the xstartup file in your text editor. Replace the last line with 'startkde &' (without quotes of course).
Note: Editing in xstartup file is to tell the vncserver to startup KDE when vncserver starts up.

5. Type "vncserver" to start it up and connect to your hostname on port 1 via your VNC client. I recommend RealVNC for windows users and Mac users can use VNCViewer.

You are now able to use your VPS via a remote desktop!

When you are done simply type in SSH "pkill -9 vnc" and then "rm -rf /tmp/.X1*".

If you get this error:
unable to connect to host: Connection refused (10061)

reboot your VPS and run this command:
"rm -rf /tmp/.X1*" and then "vncserver"

lxadmin/Kloxo

Mon, 18 May 2009 09:55:55 -0700

Kloxo, (formerly known as lxadmin) comes with Lighttpd preinstalled. For you who does not know what is lighttpd, please refer to this link: Wikipedia - Lighttpd

Since lighttpd does not support .htaccess files, most will find that they will need to install apache web server on their server. Good news is with kloxo, you can switch to Apache from inside the control panel (remember, the switch works for all the domains hosted inside your vps, you can't have some domains with apache and some with lighttpd):

1. login as 'admin'
2. click on the 'server tab'
3. on the box 'server linux' click on 'switch program'
4. make your choice for the web server you prefer
5. lxadmin will convert conf files appropriately and install apache automatically
6. wait a few minutes to let lxadmin do this and to restart the new server
7. you can check which http server is running choosing 'component info' in the 2nd box 'services' of the 'server home' page.

You might want to backup any existing data on your server prior to switching web server as a standard precaution measures.

Mail Server

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:52:30 -0700

Always remember to use "mail.yourdomain.com" as the incoming Post Office Protocol (POP3) and outgoing Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMPT) server in your local email client, such as Outlook Express. In the Cpanel mail control center, the forwarding function provides a forwarding function to other addresses and can be used to alias one account to another. Thus, if you want alice@homepage.com to forward to the POP3 account of chuck@aol.com, you can use the forwarding function to make this happen.

All POP email boxes, EXCEPT the default account, use the full email address (user@domain.com) as the username when logging in.

Your "default address" is the root catch-all mailbox. It receives messages heading to all addresses that are not setup as unique POP accounts within your domain. Keep in mind that the default address account does NOT use the full email address format, like other POP accounts. The login for your default address is the same as the main FTP login for your account.

If it seems like you cannot lock a POP3 account to retrieve messages for any reason, the quickest way to solve this problem is to delete and recreate the account within your control panel. This saves time as it bypasses having to ask our support staff for assistance. Here, the changes you make to your email items, with your control panel, are done in real time.

The mailing list feature is very simple, so please keep this in mind. If you require a more powerful listserv program, please discuss this with our support staff. Note, however, that we cannot utilize a robust listserv on our web-hosting machines without causing the server's overall performance to suffer. Thus, it is likely we may not be able to assist your needs.

When I post to the mail list the mail is held for administrative approval because of "implicit destination"
In the web-based list administration interface, go to 'Privacy options' and 'Spam-specific posting filters' (mid-page). In the text box for "Alias names (regexps) which qualify as explicit to or cc destination names for this list", enter the email address of the list.

FrontPage

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:43:56 -0700

General Info
FrontPage extensions are included free with all accounts. Keep in mind that you will need a copy of the FrontPage program from Microsoft before you can begin to follow the directions below.

Please also note that your domain name will need to be activated on our name-server before FrontPage will be available to you on your account.

Login:
Choose "Open FrontPage Web" from the File Menu in FrontPage Explorer. Once you have done this, it will ask you for a Web-Server of File Location. Enter http://yourdomain.com and then "list webs". Next, you will need to select (double-click) the root web. The requested login and password are the same as those you use for your FTP account.

Usage:
FrontPage supplies you with two separate interfaces. FrontPage Explorer is used to manage files within your website. If you open a file in your website, another program, called FrontPage Editor, will open. When you are connected to your website, all changes made to any file you edit will be saved to your website.

*Note: Although the software documentation states that you can create a site on your computer and then "publish" it to the web-server, we do not recommend this. On a number of occasions, publishing to the server from your computer loses the Interactive web-bots features that you may have set-up when designing your site on your local computer. Conversely, we recommend that you create your entire site while connected to your website and save directly to the server. To move files already created on your website, use the Import command found under the File menu - within FrontPage Explorer - to select the files to import to the server. This is by far the best method to move files from your hard drive to the server. Using FTP to upload is not recommended, as this may overwrite important files. Also, only edit .htaccess if you know what you're doing.

Additional support documents and complete usage instructions can be found at Microsoft's official FrontPage Home Page. http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage

Email

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:41:32 -0700

Can't send email:
Our SMTP servers are configured as secure relays. This means that you cannot simply reference "mail.yourdomain.com" as an Outgoing mail-server unless you successfully login via one of your POP3 accounts at "mail.yourdomain.com” before you try to send. This is a mandatory setting to prevent spammers from using our mail-servers as havens for unsolicited email. If you are getting a "relaying prohibited" or "disconnected by administrator" error, normally this means that you didn’t login to the POP3 server at your domain before you tried to send through the SMTP server at your domain. To login, you need to check for mail first.

In addition to this, you still may not be able to send mail, regardless of whether or not you have successfully checked your mail. The reason why this may be the case is some ISPs have been set-up in such a way that their customers cannot use an outbound SMTP server to relay messages. If you are still experiencing problems sending mail through your domain, and are certain that you have logged in via POP3 to an account at your domain, you should contact your local ISP to see if they allow their customers to use outbound SMTP servers.

Your default root email account:
Every account starts out with a default "catch-all" account for its domain. This email box will grab all mail heading to ANYNAME@yourdomain.com. The login for this box is the same main account login you receive once you have successfully signed-up. Thus, if your root account is "test@homepage.net" (login of "homepage" - first 8 letters of your domain), there is no need to request an alias to your root account, because all names under your domain are already being filtered into this account.

Problem resolving your mail-host :
If you find that you cannot get "mail.yourdomain.com" to resolve, as a valid SMTP or POP3 server, please make sure that your domain is registered in our name-servers. If your domain is registered in our name-servers and you continue to experience this problem, then try clearing-out your cache and cookies and then restarting your computer. Also, keep in mind that in some cases your registration may not yet have been completed by the registrar.

Any Username And Password Error:
The main cause for this is trying to access your email account with the wrong username / password details. If this is NOT your primary email account, remember to use the full email address (user@domain.com) as your username when logging in. If all else fails, simply remove and recreate the account with your mail control panel.

If none of the above helps, then most likely the POP3 box in question has received a corrupted message. In such an event, contact support and tell them to clear that box out. Note, however, that this usually results in most (or all) of that particular mailbox's contents being erased.

Cpanel

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:33:15 -0700

General Information
We provide Cpanel as our control panel.
You can access your control panel at:
http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/ or you may use, http://your ip address:2082

If using http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/

(Note: this path will not be active until your domain has been transferred to our name-servers.) You will be asked to enter your username / password to gain access to your configuration. The control panel is pretty much self explanatory; however, a little information on the usage of each section is included below to help you, should you become confused along the way:

FTP Accounts
Accounts used to manage access to accounts on your web-space. The creation of an FTP account will allow users to log-on to a sub-directory from your main account, without gaining access to your main account. Sessions show users that are currently logged on to your domain.

Settings allow you to modify access to your anonymous FTP site.

CGI
We have numerous customizable CGI scripts that have been pre-installed on to the server for you to use with your own account. The only thing you need to do is to select the script you are interested in using, select the colors, style etc., and then click the
"Make HTML" button. You can then paste the HTML output into any of your HTML files for use with that system’s CGI program.

Java
System Java works in exactly the same way as the CGI system outlined above.

Web-Page Protection
Web-page protection is used to limit access to any directory to users who enter a username/password combination. To protect a directory within your account:

Click on that directory
Enter a username / password to gain access
Click add

You can add as many users as you wish to this file. This protection is for resources accessed via the Internet only, and this will not create an FTP user.

However, do not use this system if you are already using FrontPage, as the two are not compatible. Rather, please use the security controls within FrontPage itself.

EMAIL
Email control panels allow instant creation of email POP3, forwards, and aliases.

A POP3 account is a stand-alone incoming email account. So, if you create u: john p: doe it all mail sent to john@domain.com, it will be routed to the joe email account. The user joe can then check this mail by logging into mail.domain.com using his username and password. Note: all usernames automatically have a determined amount of letters of the domain name appended to the beginning of the username. So if john was a another domain user, the user would use mail.somedomain.net as his incoming email server and use powerjohn as his login name to retrieve mail sent to john@homepage.net.

An alias forwards mail sent to one address to another POP3 account within your domain. For example if our recently created john account was going to
receive all mail sent to sales@anyname.net, we would setup sales as an alias to john. Note: by default, all names are not configured to the root account. So if you sent a message to testl@domain.com it would be sent to your main root account, unless you had set it up as an alias, forward or POP3.

A forward account forwards mail sent to user@domain.com to an address completely out of your domain. For example if john had an AOL account and wanted to check all his mail there, you could setup john to forward to john3435@aol.com.

Access Stats
Provides access to many different programs that will analyze your access logs and show you more information about your web-site’s traffic.

Password
Allows you to change your main account password. It is recommended good practice to change this password at least once a month.

File Manager
Allows you to modify the files on your web-site in real-time via a web-based interface. You can perform many commands, such as CHMOD, as well as actually editing a file and saving it directly to the web-server.
Java Chat
Allows you to access your personal java chat server and supplies the code needed for you to use this product on your own site.

Handlers / Types
You will probably never need to use this portion of your control panel. A MIME type basically tells the web-server that a .html document is a web-page, that a .gif doc is a gif image, etc. If you would like to configure a custom MIME type, such as making .pictures a gif image file, you would enter it here.

Error Editor
This section lets you customize the errors that your users will see - instead of the generic server errors. You can setup a 404 page to redirect users to your main web-site, instead of defaulting to a dead document.

CHMOD

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:10:23 -0700

General Information
When using UNIX systems it is sometimes necessary to change file permissions, which is done using the CHMOD command.
While we always recommend that you check your documentation, basically there are two different methods you can select from in order to CHMOD a file:

Certain FTP clients, such as Cute FTP and WS/FTP Pro, allow CHMODing to be done directly within the FTP. In order to achieve this you need to highlight the file that you want to use and then select "change file permissions” from the command menu.
The second option is "manual” CHMODing. In order to achieve this you need to enter the designated CHMOD.

Reasons for CHMODing
CHMODing files is done for a variety of reasons. You CHMOD files to: mark them executable, give them write permission, restrict access to them, etc.

It is important to note that CHMODing files is going to be nearly impossible to avoid. If you are trying to run certain CGI script, then this may require you to execute permission on the script itself, write permission on a directory, and read on an informational page. Here, your CGI script should contain documentation that will inform you of the proper CHMOD procedure (if any).

List of CHMOD's and what they mean.

CHMOD 777 file: available to owners, groups and the world at large in order to Read, Write and Execute.
CHMOD 755 file: available to owners to Read, Write and Execute; and to groups and the world at large to Read and Execute only.
CHMOD 644 file: available to owners to Read and Write; and to groups and the world at large to Read only.
CHMOD 666 file: available to owners, groups and the world at large in order to Read and Write.

CGI

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:09:27 -0700

What is CGI?
CGI (“Common Gateway Interface”) includes programs that run on servers so as to enhance the quality and functionality of a web-site. There are many resources on-line that allow the downloading of free CGI scripts.

Example:
http://www.hotscripts.com
http://cgi.resourceindex.com

Do you allow CGI to run on your servers?
We do allow running of CGI scripts on our servers; however, they must conform to our acceptable server resource usage policy which is being fair to other users by keeping your usage to the minimal. If we deem that a script is using an excessive amount of server resources, it will be disabled.

What’s the correct path to perl?
Before a CGI script will work, certain modifications must be made. Certain paths must be specified in some scripts. After the "#", in the first line of the perl script, the path to perl must be specified. Normally, "/usr/bin/perl" should suffice for this path. Below is a printout of a "whereis perl" query from our system.

PHP Code:

perl: /usr/bin/perl 

What is the path to send mail?
Another program that needs to be specified in many scripts is sendmail. This is located at

PHP Code:

/usr/sbin/sendmail 

What is the exact physical path to your root directory on the web-server?
The path to your root directory is:

PHP Code:

/home/username/ 

Obviously, replace "username" with the login you were assigned when you first received your account details. Also, when you configure your CGI, remember to include your /public_html in your path. For instance, if you have a guestbook.pl script in your /cgi-bin, the exact physical path to that file is:

PHP Code:

/home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl 

Why doesn't my CGI work?
Make sure, when you upload the CGI file, that you DO NOT upload it in binary mode - rather, use ASCII mode. Uploading in binary mode will cause the server to not recognize the scripts as executables. Most FTP clients will upload .pl or .cgi files in binary mode by default, so you will need to manually change this. You will need to upload the scripts into your cgi-bin directory for security reasons, however they will execute from anywhere within your account.

The last step is to set-up the file permissions. This is also known as "CHMODing" and can be done from most FTP clients. For specific queries on chmoding, please refer to our "CHMODing files" help section.

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Thu, 14 May 2009 14:45:19 -0700

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