In this article, I will provide examples of updating cPanel and WHM.
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Installing NetBox on Ubuntu
NetBox is a web application for documenting and management of computer networks.
With a large number of networks, devices, it allows you to visually place it in racks, maintain a database, etc.
For example, I will perform a test installation of NetBox on Ubuntu 18.04.
Description of DNS Amplification Attacks
In this article, I will briefly describe the principle of DDoS DNS Amplification attacks.
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innodb_io_capacity – determines the number of write IOPS for background InnoDB tasks, such as flushing pages from a buffer pool, etc. If the cleanup operation is lagging, then InnoDB can perform cleanup more aggressively at a higher IOPS, which is defined in the innodb_io_capacity_max variable.
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I will give a simple example of setting up OSPF in Quagga, for the test I will use Hyper-V with a virtual switch and virtual machines running Ubuntu Server 18.04.
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I will give an example of installing and configuring xt_NAT on Ubuntu Server 14.04 with kernel version 4.4.0-142. xt_NAT may not work on newer kernel versions. According to the developer, it should work on Linux Kernel 3.18 and 4.1. To make it work on newer versions of the kernel, you can find patches.
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Partitioning tables in MySQL is splitting a large table into parts according to the specified criteria, which will speed up reading and writing data to it if this table contains a very large amount of data.
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innodb_stats_on_metadata – Lets you collect statistics on metadata operations such as SHOW TABLE STATUS when accessing INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES or INFORMATION_SCHEMA.STATISTICS tables.
In newer versions of MySQL, the innodb_stats_on_metadata parameter is disabled by default, which makes working with these tables faster.
How to upgrade phpBB 3.3.3 to 3.3.4
For example, I will update phpBB version 3.3.3 to 3.3.4.
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OCSP is a protocol for checking the validity of certificates, that is, to make sure that they have not been revoked and whether they were actually issued. Enabling OCSP Stapling on the web server side allows you to increase the speed of site opening, since the request to the certification authority is made not by the browser, but by the web server.
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