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May 11, 2013, 08:00 (0 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by Falko Timme) Google has just released PageSpeed Beta for nginx, the nginx equivalent of mod_pagespeed for Apache. This module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times. This tutorial explains [...]

A mysterious backdoor that has been used to drive traffic to malicious websites may be more widespread than previously thought, security researchers say, and it affects more web servers than just Apache. The malware – which has been dubbed “Linux/Cdorked.A” or “Darkleech,” depending whom you ask – was first spotted in the wild in late [...]

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Security researchers are sounding the alarm about a new piece of highly stealthy malware that is infecting Web servers. Called Linux/Cdorked, it redirects website visitors to compromised sites. Experts are still trying to figure out how the servers are being infected. Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin reported, “Security researchers have uncovered an ongoing and widespread attack [...]

The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers. Identified as CVE-2013-2028, the vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow and was first introduced in the Nginx 1.3.9 development [...]

A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don’t know why. Last week, security companies Eset and Sucuri found Apache servers infected with Linux/Cdorked. If that malware is running on a Web server, victims are redirected to another website that tries to compromise their [...]

Security researchers have uncovered an ongoing and widespread attack that causes sites running three of the Internet’s most popular Web servers to push potent malware exploits on visitors. Linux/Cdorked.A, as the malicious backdoor behind the attacks is known, has been observed infecting at least 400 Web servers, 50 of them from the Alexa top 100,000 [...]

Description A vulnerability has been reported in nginx, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the “ngx_http_parse_chunked()” function (http/ngx_http_parse.c) when parsing an HTTP chunk and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary [...]

May 06, 2013, 09:00 (0 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by Falko Timme) This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) server (with Apache2, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through [...]

May 03, 2013, 04:00 (0 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by Falko Timme) This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through [...]

May 01, 2013, 23:00 (0 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by Anonymous) Logstalgia (also known as ApachePong) is a very powerful and handy app. It is a website access log visualization tool. It is an extremely useful tool to give you look at your web server traffic. I often use this kind of software to justify and [...]

ServInt has begun offering a service level agreement for customers using its Jelastic cloud hosting platform Web hosting provider ServInt announced on Tuesday that it has begun offering a service level agreement for customers using its Jelastic cloud hosting platform. As the first web hosting provider to partner with Jelastic in the US, ServInt recently upgraded [...]

Ring in open source and cloud apps, ring out old packaged software. That’s the message relayed by Peter Yared, CTO for CBS Interactive, at this week’s open source-focused Open Business Conference in San Francisco. And on a related software front, broadcasting giant CBS says it is not caving to patent trolls and is instead choosing [...]

Nginx released the latest stable version 1.4.0 on Thursday, adding support for the SPDY protocol which helps websites load up to 40 percent faster Web server developer nginx released the latest stable version 1.4.0 on Thursday, adding support for the SPDY protocol which helps websites load up to 40 percent faster. The SPDY protocol module was [...]

Google really cares about the web being faster. In 2010 it led a group of contributors in releasing a module for Apache web servers called PageSpeed. Today, the same group has released a version for Nginx, an alternative to Apache, which is also open source and used by massively trafficked sites like Netflix, Hulu, Pinterest, [...]

Tubes so fast they’re blurry. Image: Wetsun/Flickr. The team behind Nginx (pronounced engine-ex) have released version 1.4, which brings a number of new features, most notably support for the SPDY protocol. SPDY, the HTTP replacement, promises to speed up website load times by up to 40 percent. Given that Nginx is the second most popular [...]

Apr 25, 2013, 06:00 (0 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by Anonymous) This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Piwigo gallery site with nginx, configured for vhosts, on a Debian Wheezy system. Piwigo is a gallery-website with many plugins. In this sample we configure the vhost “gallery.domain.tld”. Complete Story Article source: http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/install-piwigo-gallery-on-nginx-with-debian-wheezy-130419011506.html

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One of the world’s leading providers of Linux-based hosting unveiled a new content delivery network which increases website loading time by up to 143%. Elk Grove, CA (PRWEB) April 19, 2013 PacificHost, a leading provider of Linux-based cPanel hosting solutions for social media and video sharing websites recently announced the addition of Railgun to its [...]

The explosion of infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offerings has greatly expanded the ways in which hobbyists and professionals deploy web sites and web services. For about the same cost as cheapo shared hosting, you can get your own small virtual machine at any number of providers, allowing you to tweak the entire instance to just the [...]