Archives for November 2009

Archive for November, 2009

Welcome to XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited)

Posted by nickouls on November 27, 2009

To speed up the rapid advancement and recognition of XeonBD and to make it much more constant in business sector; We are very happy to announce that our favored XeonBD is now take over by the XeonBDâ€™s mother management company Xeon Software Limited. We are offering a very warm and heartiest greeting in this winter from XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited). And from now XeonBD will run by the management of Xeon Software Limited.

With the progression of XeonBDâ€™s status we have upgraded and advanced our virtual system core too in order to provide you the best and reliant performance and for to deliver more advanced service in future that we always use to say to our partners/clients.

cPanel server is now more advanced:

XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited) cPanel hosting server has been upgraded to Dual Xeon E5520 Quad Core 16 threads core server at USA. It is the new dedicated server of XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited) with the basic configuration as follows:

Intel Dual Xeon E5520 Quad Core @ 2.26 GHz

(hyper threaded 16 simultaneous core)

8 GB X 2 DDRIII RAM

2 x 1,000 GB SATA II HDD

Firewall Protection

100 Mbps network

100.00 % uptime network uptime guarantee

Brute Force Detection and Evasion

Apache Dos Prevention/Protection

E-Mail Virus Filtering

lots moreâ€¦.

Plesk windows server upgraded:

XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited) Plesk windows hosting server has also been upgraded to Intel Q6600 QUAD CORE server at USA. It is another new dedicated server of XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited) which basic configuration as follows:

Intel Q6600 QUAD CORE

8 GB DDR SDRAM

1 TB B 7200RPM SATA HDD/ 8MB Cache

Windows Server (+Windows 2003 Server) (+ServerSecure) (+32 Bit)

Plesk 9 for Windows (+PowerPack) (+SiteBuilder)

Lots more ….

Both the cPanel and Plesk serversâ€™ network is protected by Cisco ASA 5505 strong hardware firewall protection with 24x7x365 2nd graded engineering team look up directly from the datacenter. Last but not the least all the XeonBDâ€™s server is right now 100.00 % uptime network uptime guaranteed

Advanced Cisco Firewall

By upgrading our hardware configuration our system can process heavy loaded requests within short time and can give the precise output. So your exploring speed with Xeon is now very faster. Cisco ASA 5505 Firewall of Xeon is now giving you more safety and heartthrob security. A firewall is a dedicated appliance, or software running on a computer, which inspects network traffic passing through it, and denies or permits passage based on a set of rules. Ours advance firewall can filter traffic based on many packet attributes like source IP address, source port, destination IP address or port, destination service like WWW or FTP. They can filter based on protocols, TTL values, netblock of originator, of the source, and many other attributes.

Partnership with BitDefender

For security solution, XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited) has recently opened channel partnership project with BitDefender (the world’s most immediate protection against security threats, including viruses, spy ware, crime ware, hackers, phising, Parental Control, Optimized Performance and spam) in Bangladesh.

We are very happy to offer our existing valued clients exclusive reduced rates only the month of Novemberâ€™09 and Decemberâ€™09 for selected solution license key only which including BitDefender Total Security 2010, BitDefender Internet Security 2010 and BitDefender Antivirus 2010.

BitDefender Antivirus

3 user 1 year @ BDT 1,300

BitDefender Internet Security

3 user 1 year @ BDT 2,000

BitDefender Total Security

3 user 1 year @ BDT 3,000

50% Blowout offer (50% Blowout discount during sign up for one year, with all our Shared Linux and Reseller/Master Reseller hosting packages) is still continuing and will be finished on 30th November, 09. So hurry up to buy your new hosting plan with the Promotional code â€œGREENâ€ during sign up.

We are committed towards constantly bringing exclusive, innovative and appropriate services to you and continually meeting and exceeding your potentials.

Thank You.

Administrative Team
XeonBD (Xeon Software Limited)

Suite 2A, House 231, Road 06
Mohammadi Housing Limited
Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207
Bangladesh

Web: www.xeonbd.com
Blog: blog.xeonbd.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/xeonbd

Phone: +88-02-8101735
Fax: +88-02-8101736

Sales Hot Line: +88 016 77XEONBD (926623)

Tags: Xeon Softwarea Limited, XeonBD, XSL

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Brute Force Protection: Account Locked in cPanel!

Posted by on November 25, 2009

Most of the web administrators who generally deal with WHM control panel mayÂ occasionallyÂ face a fatal error regarding Brute Force Protection. Many of web admins have faced or may face this error due to some specific reason.

Infrequently, when user or website administrator attempts to login to cPanelâ€™s WebHost Manager (WHM), or remote or local log in via Telnet or SSH to Linux console to the web server, the login is denied and not allowed. The following error message may appear.

This account is currently locked out because a brute force attempt was detected. Please wait 10 minutes and try again. Attempting to login again will only increase this delay. If you frequently experience this problem, we recommend having your username changed to something less generic.

The brute force protection on cPanel-powered web host is provided by cPHulk, which prevents malicious forces from trying to access the serverâ€™s services by guessing the login password for that service. When an account on the system has experienced too many failed login attempts, the particular account will automatically been â€œprotectedâ€ by forbidding further login attempts, including all-important root account. cPHulk Brute Force Protection will also block out an IP address which has been detected to send too many unauthorized logon attempts.

As a result, serverâ€™s owner are potentially been locked out of the server if the cPHulkd is enabled, even the wild-guessing brute force hacking is done by hackers in another corner of the world.

When WHM locks out a user account, particularly â€œrootâ€, the best way is to wait for 10 minutes to see if the account will be unlocked. If the locks persist, webmaster and administrator who still can remote login via SSH to the server as root can manually remove the lockouts via following steps:

TypeÂ mysql at console to access MySQL client.
At MySQL client prompt, enter the following commands (preceding with mysql>)one after one, pressing Enter each time:

mysql>Â use cphulkd;

Expected result: Database changed.

mysql>Â BACKUP TABLE `brutes` TO â€˜/path/to/backup/directoryâ€™;
mysql>Â BACKUP TABLE `logins` TO â€˜/path/to/backup/directoryâ€™;

Above command will backup the brutes table, the main table used by cPHulk to record locked accounts and denied IP addresses.

mysql>Â DELETE FROM `brutes`;
mysql>Â DELETE FROM `logins`;

Above commands will remove all blocked IP addresses and locked accounts from the system, enabling full access again. If youâ€™re familiar with SQL statements, itâ€™s possible to use WHERE clause to specify logins or IP address that you want to remove only.

mysql>Â quit;

Exit MySQL client.

If you canâ€™t login to the server due to brute force protection, you probably have to contact web hosting service provider support to physically access the server to remove the Brute Force Protection. To avoid future blockage or lock out, itâ€™s recommended to add own IP address as Trusted Hosts List whitelist in cPHulk Brute Force Protection. To do so, go to WHM -> Security -> Security Center -> cPHulk Brute Force Protection. Inside â€œConfigure cPHulkâ€, click Trusted Hosts List link.

Brute Force Protection is furnished to give you full control panel security. So there is not much to worry about if you see this problem.

Tags: account locked, brute force protection, error in cpanel

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Dealing With Iptables

Posted by on November 25, 2009

The much known word to most of the developer when they deal with firewall is IpTables. It allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall which is implemented by different Netfilter modules and the chains and rules it stores. Netfilter is a set of hooks inside the Linux kernel that allows kernel modules to register callback functions with the network stack. Different kernel modules and programs are currently used for different protocols; iptables applies to IPv4, ip6tables to IPv6, arptables to ARP, and for special Ethernet frames used ebtables. It is normally a user space application program with integrated full featured Ip control.

Iptables is a generic table arrangement for the definition of rulesets. Each rule within an IP table consists of a number of classifiers (iptables matches) and one linked action (iptables target). Iptables has widespread documentation that can be accessed online or by typing man iptables at the command line. Yet despite the depth of the documentation available for iptables, its density can be mysterious.

Here I am recommend you to use some tools by using those you can create your own suited IpTables so easily.

FireHOL it allows you to configure iptables through its abstract, extensible configuration language, enabling you to write your configuration in something approaching a fourth-generation programming language.

You can download from SourceForge.

Guarddog is a GUI-based iptables configurator for KDE. Like FireHOL, Guarddog is application- and protocol-based, but unlike FireHOL Guarddog provides extensive guidance on which protocols to allow and disallow both through its documentation and through the GUI itself.

Easy Firewall Generator Easy Firewall generator works through a simple Web-based interface to generate a basic firewall script for iptables.

There are many iptables configuration tools you can find on web by those you can apply your own logic and preferences in that configuration

Tags: firewall, iptables, linux firewall, security

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October 2009 Uptime Record for XeonBD

Posted by nickouls on November 4, 2009

Linux Dedicated Server Up time Record

Service	% OK	% Critical
FTP	100.000%	0.000%
HTTP	100.000%	0.000%
MySQL	100.000%	0.000%
SMTP	100.000%	0.000%
POP	100.000%	0.000%

As you can review in the table above, our cPanel next generation advanced Premium Hosting server performance for all services reached out 100% up time during the month of October. Based on this report, we believe that we have proven that we have given premium service in our next generation advancedÂ PremiumÂ cPanel Hosting plans.

Our premium hosting performance reached 100.00% up time in August 2009 and there is no critical/down time.

So, what you think isn’t XeonBD is providing the best platform for web hosting on the web !!!

Tags: cPanel, new cPanel Linux hosting plans launched, Reseller Hosting

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Can one actually game or manipulate the Alexa Ranking?

Posted by on November 2, 2009

I believe that there are methods which will allow you to easily bring an Alexa ranking in the millions down to the 100,000 level. However, bringing it past the 10,000 or 1,000 mark is a considerably more difficult process, because of the stiff competition among websites.

Some have adamantly stated that there are no proven ways to game Alexa, while others have claimed that auto-surfs and scripts do work to some degree.

Iâ€™m not going to take any sides because I canâ€™t guarantee that auto-surfs or other artificial methods will have similar effects for every blog.

The easiest way to know to know if any of the tips mentioned below really work is to actually try them for yourselves and monitor the results.

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