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We are a hosting provider, and we specialize in Xen VPS Hosting. This place was created as a request from our customers who needed some guidance in using the Xen VPS servers we provide them. We wanted to make sure, we could help them take advantage of their servers to do all they can with them. We work hard to maintain our Articles, and we hope they work for you.

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This article will cover basic security in CentOS, from securing SSH to installing and configuring a basic firewall. Since your VPS is pretty bare when we activate it, it is important to implement security as soon as you can to avoid being compromised. You will learn how to restrict access to your VPS to a small number of selected individuals (or PCs) and design a very simple but effective firewall solution.

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In this article we will look at installing and configuring a complete server solution for your VPS, including HTTP, Database, and DNS. This article will cover a broad base of topics in a general sense, but will not focus on one specifically. If you would like to get a better understanding of a specific topic please refer to our other aticles or use the article request form to file a request.

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This article will explain how to install and configure lighthttpd with PHP5 and MySQL. lighthttd is a web server designed to be fast, secure, flexible and standards-complient while being optimized for speed-critical environments.

Its low memory footprint, light CPU load and speed make it the perfect web server for an environment such as a 384MB VPS. lighthttpd supports the FastCGI interface, which we will use to enable PHP5 support. This article assumes you have already updated your system with the latest fixes and DO NOT have a web server, such as Apache, already installed on your VPS. We will be installing all required applications with the apt-get utility in Debian.

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In this article we’ll duscuss setting up your VPS as a VNC server and using a client from your Windows machine to connect. Why would you want to use your VPS as a remote desktop? Well one example I can think of would be if you wanted to explore the GUI features of Linux before installing it on your box at home. Another advantage would be to install a desktop environment if you’re unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the command prompt to run administrative tasks.

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Ruby on Rails is a web application framework designed to make web development faster, simpler, and more efficient. This article will show you how you can install Ruby on Rails and configure it to work with the websterver and database on your VPS.

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This article is intended to help you set up name based virtual hosts on the Apache Web server. Apache allows you to host several different domains and subdomains on a single IP. While this is an integral part of Apache, many people seem to struggle with setting up such a scenario.

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This article will go over how to install and set up a DNS server with BIND on your VPS. BIND has been around for 20 years and has proven to be very reliable for managing DNS. We will be using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 as the target OS for deployment but the process for deploying on any other OS should be just about the same.

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Zabbix can monitor Windows and Linux (among others!) servers, network devices, and applications. It also includes a notification system for email, IM and SMS. It’s also got a bunch of other neat stuff like performance graphs and real-time network status maps. Read more…

In this article, we are going to discuss how to get a LAMP Server up and running on Debian 4.0. The reason we picked Debian for this article is because it is by far one of the most commonly used distributions for hosting websites. In addition Debian is one of the lightest installations, with respect to memory and disk usage. LAMP, as it is commonly referred to, stands for Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl. The instructions in this article can also be applied to any other version of Debian and also Ubuntu.

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