If you’re using CentOS for any part of your data center, chances are you’re looking for an easier administration solution. Although CentOS offers a very nice GUI desktop (GNOME 3), there are certain systems and services you want to be able to manage with a level of efficiency that requires a web-based admin console. That’s…
Data Center Gas Fire Suppression System Comparison
So, you have to choose a gas fire suppression system to protect against fire destroying valuable assets such as Computer Equipment, Document Vaults or Telecommunications / Switch Gear. You have a choice between Chemical Fire Suppression Systems such as Novec 1230 or FM200 and Inert Fire Suppression Systems such as Inergen. FM200 Fire Suppression Firstly,…
How to lower Active Directory Functional Level
In Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, you can lower the Forest and Domain functional level from 2012 to 2008 R2, or from 2008 R2 to 2008. But you cannot lower it beyond 2008. Also, this is not possible by GUI, you have to use PowerShell for doing this. Let’s see how you can…
How to Remove Your IP from the Microsoft Blacklist
If Microsoft based mail servers have blacked your server’s IP address, you will see something like this in your email server logs or in a bounced email: 550 SC-001 Mail rejected to fix this issue, you will have to check the Blacklisting status: check for blacklist record on MX toolbox. if your mail server’s IP…
How to Force SSL in Drupal
After purchasing & Installing the SSL certificate, you will need to force SSL usage on Drupal / WordPress. Inside the .htaccess file, you will need to add something like this (replacing your domain name as needed): RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainname\.com* RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domainname.com/$1 [L,R=301] These rewrite conditions should be placed after the…
Install Cent OS packages on Red Hat Linux
You might have installed RHEL operating system, but you should have registered to Red Hat Network for using its repository. In such case, you will not be able to use yum and not all packages are easy to install from source (especially if the package has plenty of dependencies !). Thankfully, you can make CentOS repository…
How to enable Cloud Fare on VPS
STEPS: 1. SSH to the server in which you need to install CloudFlare plugin. 2. Enter the cPanel basic directory: cd /usr/local/cpanel 3. Download the tar file to your server. curl -k -L https://github.com/cloudflare/CloudFlare-CPanel/tarball/master > cloudflare.tar.gz 4. Untar the file tar -zxvf cloudflare.tar.gz 5. This will extracts a directory which includes a UNIQUE_ID. The sample…
How to install Softaculous on VPS server
Softaculous is a great Auto installer which have a lot of scripts to achieve our needs. In our WHM/cPanel server we can use the Softaculous as an add-on, which manage installations. Prerequisites: The php extension IonCubeLoader is must be enabled on your server. Method I: # wget -N http://files.softaculous.com/install.sh # chmod 755 install.sh # ./install.sh…