My 2µF

My provider has upgraded its VServer plans.

Now offering 1GB of RAM, 20GB of disk and some more CPU power for the same price, but openSUSE was phased out. My old VServer only hat 256MB or RAM and was kinda slow. Now I’m fighting with Debian 5.0 and apt-get / aptitude ;-)
Random interruptions to [...]

robert Server. debian, linux, opensuse, openVZ, upgrade, virtuozzo, vserver

My virtual private server runs fail2ban to block IPs that have tried to gain access to my system by hammering my ssh server. Suspicious IPs get banned for a certain time with a firewall policy using iptables. The un-banning is useful in case I’ve locked myself out (because I forgot to add my current IP [...]

robert Server. breakin, script, server security, sshd, tcpwrapper

I have some statistics plugins for WordPress that evaluate what sites refer to my blog. I use “WassUp”, “StatPress” and “CyStats”. Unfortunately some idiot thinks it’s funny to bombard my webserver with referer spam. Complaining to the local net-admin us useless of course.
There are some tutorials for mod_security, but most of the ones I found [...]

robert Server. apache2, linux, mod_evasive, mod_security2, referer spam