Friday, July 30, 2010

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How To Make Your Firewall Really Safe

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Experts say, 20-minute long broadband connection to Internet is enough for a malefactor to break into an unprotected PC. Just imagine what can happen if a corporate network is connected to the Internet without proper protection. Infected workstations and stolen intellectual property are the most predictable consequences but things can go even worse. Installing a [...]

Apache Server Performance

Posted under performance

Often we need to measure web server performance. There are various reasons for this, but the most frequent one is modification of configuration files. Quite often we look for ways of improving web server speed and performance: tuning up nginx, apache or lighttpd we can get a significant performance boost. But finally we come to [...]

Creating a Simple HTTP Ping Utility to Monitor Your Site Latency

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While surfing the web, I encountered a ready solution (written in Perl) that can be used to check websites’ latency. How to install: Install Net::HTTP, and copy the shell script to a suitable location.

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Online surveys

Among the online money making strategies, paid online surveys have attracted a large number of people around the globe. Had you been exploring ways to generate some money online, you certainly would have come across a few lucrative online survey offers. This article answers questions like what are online surveys and do online surveys generate [...]

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Apache Server Performance

Often we need to measure web server performance. There are various reasons for this, but the most frequent one is modification of configuration files. Quite often we look for ways of improving web server speed and performance: tuning up nginx, apache or lighttpd we can get a significant performance boost. But finally we come to [...]

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Why IPv6 Performance Monitoring Is A Global Necessity

The switch to IPv6 is on. In June 2008, the U.S. federal government, which is arguably the world’s largest single enterprise, required that all its executive agencies add IPv6 to their network backbones. The European Commission recently set an IPv6 target adoption rate of 25 percent by 2010, and the chairman of the Asia Pacific [...]

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Protecting DNS Server And Performing DNS Monitoring

In hierarchical structure of Internet DNS servers may be called nerve knots which directly influence the whole existence of the Internet. What can threaten their “health”? What can put them out of action? And can one protect DNS servers? Before we answer the questions, let’s see what task DNS servers carry out. In a few [...]

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Security Threats in 2008. Current trends.

Kaspersky Laboratories published an annual report where most actual security threats are reviewed and analyzed. Experts say, the most current trend is the development of a complex global virus ‘eco-system’. Almost 90% of malware were produced for the purpose of subsequent selling. Chinese hackers and virus writers made the major part of the malware, however [...]

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Monitor Usage: Short Guide to Website Monitoring

As a rule, commercial website monitoring services offer so many features and capabilities that an ordinary user may feel trapped in realm of buttons and unknown terms when trying to master website monitoring control panel. Monitoring usage may turn into a nightmare for an unexperienced webmaster. I fully understand that there are people who’d like [...]