ConfigServer Firewall (AKA csf) is an essential security tool for Linux based server and VPS. The installation of CSF is pretty straight forward and is described here: http://configserver.com/free/csf/install.txt However, some of the iptables modules required by the csf might not be present in the server and when the perl test command ( # perl /usr/local/csf/bin/csftest.pl…
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How to disable IPtables Firewall in Linux (Red hat/CentOS/Fedora Core)
Disable / Turn off Linux Firewall (Red hat/CentOS/Fedora Core) Type the following two commands to save the IPtables first and then to stop it (you must login as the root user): # /etc/init.d/iptables save # /etc/init.d/iptables stop Turn off firewall on boot # chkconfig iptables off Enable / Turn on Linux Firewall (Red hat/CentOS/Fedora Core)…
Continue readingHow to know your server inode limit and usage
Shared hosting accounts, Virtual Private server and Dedicated servers - all come with inode lmit. Any file on your Unix (or linux) system is considered as an inode. For example, an email stored in the system is considered as an inode. This way all the systems are restricted to a number of max inodes. If…
Continue readingSSH commands to check Hard Drive usage information in Linux Server
Login to your Linux server using SSH Client (ie, PuTTy) Once you are connected to your server: Use to following command to check Hard Drive and partitions: (without the "#") # df -h It will show you output like this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 489G 42G 447G 9% / none 7.8G…
Continue readingBTCL Reduces bandwidth cost by 41% – Effective from 1st April 2014
Good news for Bangladeshi Internet users!! BTCL has further reduced the price of Submarine cable (SEA-ME-WE4) IP Bandwidth. Effective from April 1st - users will be able to get 1 Mbps (MegaBits/second) dedicated bandwidth at only Taka 2800 per month. It was Taka 4800 per month per 1 Mbps previously. This will be applicable to…
Continue readingThe Sky is too low for Qubee
I was very happy to start my journey with Qubee. I remember they started their journey with some hilarious packages. But the competition finally brought qubee to the right path and they were providing some good offerings to the Bangladeshi Internet users. But, buttt... but... as a Qubee user, and specially subscribing the package called…
Continue readingSpecifications of first ever Bangladeshi Notebook brand – DOEL
Long awaited Bangladeshi notebook brand DOEL will come up with 4 different models and is expected to be launched in Bangladeshi market by October 15th. Bangladesh government re-instated the telephone manufacturing Bangladeshi unit TESHIS (টেশিস) to produce notebooks to meet growing Bangladeshi market demand. Initially the notebooks will be supplied at the government offices. TESHIS…
Continue readingBeware of Unlimited Space / unlimited bandwidth Web Hosting.
"UNLIMITED" - a well known term in web hosting industry now a days. Unlimited emails, unlimited databases, unlimited aliases etc were some of the features heard for a long time. Now competition has driven the companies to offer Unlimited web space and Unlimited Bandwidth. I have spoken to many hosting provider support team and asked…
Continue readingWhy and How to write an attractive Resume.
A resume (or CV or BioData whatever you say) is a tool which is prepared with the intention to earn an interview session and ultimately to earn a job. A resume is infact an advertisement of self through which job seekers try to get the attention of employers against potential vacancies. Employers will always try…
Continue readingSEA-ME-WE 4 Maintenance , 1-11 october 2010.
There will be maintenance work on SEA-ME-WE 4 starting from 01 October 2010 to 11 October 2010. As a consequence there will be two impact on us. On 01 October, 2010 SEA-ME-WE 4 will be completely shut down starting from 22:00hrs BST for 4 hours (it may be longer according to our previous experience). Therefore,…
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