Archive for the ‘server issues’ Category

Google Fixes App Engine Flaw -Report

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Search engine giant Google (google.com) said on Thursday that it fixed the technical issue that caused the search engine’s web application hosting service to go offline several hours this week.

The company also launched on Thursday its new paid service plans for its Website Optimizer, an online application that enables users to test a site’s content for its ability to attract visitors.

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Cpanel - dcpumon - Eating your server diskspace????

Monday, May 19th, 2008

dcpumon is a cpanel script for CPU/Memory accounting which stores percentage values of CPU and Memory usage under /var/log/dcpumon.

The script itself is of no use, it just generates statistics at the above directory. What is interesting is that there is a script for reading all that data and displays your top CPU/Memory eaters! As a result, it can be very useful if you are trying to figure out what is eating your CPU.

So, further we can read its content, running the script: /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumonview

Content Encoding Error in plesk webmail for customers in Middle East

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

“Content Encoding Error (content_encoding_error)”

Really astonished in hearing such a issue with plesk horde that only a regional customers are affected with this error. This eventually found to be a bug in Horde content copmression code and have resolved by disabling this feature.

$conf['compress_pages'] = false;

in webmail/horde/config/conf.php.

Mail exploit windows plesk 7.5 , 8.3

Monday, April 28th, 2008

It has been noticed with recent plesk releases, it creates a catch-all address called ‘trash54321@domain.com’ with the numbers being a random string. This mailbox is not visible from the Plesk interface and exists even if catch-alls are turned off for the domain. The exploit in this is that the password for this account is set the same as the username.
If someone could somehow discover the username for that catch-all account, they could log in and use the account to relay.

The issue is worth discussed in the plesk forum and i found to be useful for those  facing this issue. [URL]

Apache clustering in 5 easy setup- IBM Setup

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I have been in search for apache clustering solution for a long time and the most professional one i could see in this regard is from IBM “Construct a highly available Apache Web server cluster that spans multiple physical or virtual Linux® servers in 5 easy steps with Linux Virtual Server and Heartbeat v2.”. Its an easy to setup tutorial using SUSE servers which i think to be useful for you if you are looking for help in apache clustering. URL