http://www.linuxprof.com First stop Linux server source Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:40:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To speed up your new Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) install process and register your new box with Novell Center I suggest using a quick command line: suse_register -a email="your@emailaddresshere.com" -a regcode-sles="REGCODE" REGCODE is your Suse registration code (e.g. Order code), usually consists of 14 characters. You must be root to execute this ... http://www.linuxprof.com/register-suse-linux-enterprise-server-sles-via-command-line/ Xen is really good for running Virtual Private Servers with root access and dedicated RAM. It's a true virtualization platform that offers multiple local root servers on one physical server hardware. With XEN VPS you get your own virtual server with fully dedicated memory (RAM), process list, file system and ... http://www.linuxprof.com/xen-for-virtual-private-server-environment/ Many folks ask us what is the best platform/OS for web hosting platform? Is it Centos, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Suse or Fedora. While, Centos, FreeBSD, Fedora is more common in USA, SUSE beats deployment statistics in Europe - Germany. Finding Suse and Gento from USA dedicated server companies is somewhat tricky. ... http://www.linuxprof.com/centos-freebsd-gentoo-suse-or-fedora/ First, in order to run traceroute on the Windows box you need to launch a command prompt or DOS console. Type ‘cmd’ and hit enter in Start->Run To run Traceroute under the Windows you must use traceroute’s command line utility tracert traceroute help: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert Usage: tracert [-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout] target_name Options: -d ... http://www.linuxprof.com/running-traceroute-on-the-windows-os/ If you are installing Mailscanner and Spamassassin from source or some RPMs it's been know to use Bayesian statistics engine with it's database kept forever. This fills up /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin folder pretty quickly if you have a moderate load SMTP incoming server. To fix this problem and rebuild Bayesian filters you ... http://www.linuxprof.com/mailscanner-and-default-spamassassin-fills-up-var-space/ We have been playing around with Linux syn cookies to test out the performance and we have came to the following conclusions. It's always good to detect SYN floods and then turn on SYN cookies to better use the CPU power - so the SYN flood must be detected and sysctl ... http://www.linuxprof.com/linux-syn-cookies-performance-and-memory/ There are hundreds of blogs that have a lot of daily visitors and require dedicated server custom set-ups to run quickly and without a delay. Many of these blogs quickly outgrow single hardware resources, even if you try to upgrade the server and add more memory, even if you upgrade ... http://www.linuxprof.com/high-bandwidth-blog-hosting-load-balancing-clustering-and-failover/ There are many guys who ask this question and the answer is not that easy. If you have a real understanding of how Linux or FreeBSD works, you can sure use your skills and apply for unmanaged server. By using unmanaged server you save some bucks and have full control ... http://www.linuxprof.com/managed-server-or-unmanaged/