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Mail Spam Prevention with RBL/DNSBL
Mar 05, 2010
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Updated on: 25 Oct 2023
RBL stands for Real-time Black-hole List, this is a term for DNS based systems designed to assist in the prevention of email abuse. The first such system was created by Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) LLC. The generic name for such services is DNSBL. The RBL usually lists server IP addresses from ISPs whose customers […]
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How to hide Apache and PHP Versions from remote users
Nov 01, 2009
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Updated on: 25 Oct 2023
Hide Apache Information To hide the information, add/change the following two apache directives in Apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ServerTokens ProductOnly ServerSignature Off Now you need to restart your web server using the following command # service httpd restart Now the output for apache header looks like below Server: Apache Hide PHP Version in Apache from […]
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Free Web Hosting Offer for .IN Domains
Oct 27, 2009
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Updated on: 21 Aug 2023
Web hosting like any other commoditised service available on the Internet today, is tagged as a low cost option to enabling your presence on the web. Although, there are a plethora of low cost web hosting companies online today offering you GBs of space for pennies they simply cannot provide prompt and effective support to […]
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Quick tip to check if your site is indexed by Google
Jul 28, 2009
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Updated on: 22 Aug 2023
To quickly determine whether your site is still in Google index, just perform a Google site search for its entire URL. e.g. a search for [ site:www.diademblogs.com or site:diademblogs.com ], for instance, returns the following results: Results 1 – 39 of 39 from www.diademblogs.com. (0.25 seconds) If your site is displayed as a result when […]
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A Beginners Guide to Domain Name Registration
Jul 14, 2009
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Updated on: 11 Nov 2023
A brief primer on domain registration services and tips to ensure that you have complete control of your online web assets. Firstly, the techie stuff :). The main purpose of a domain name is to provide symbolic representations, i.e., recognizable names, to mostly numerically addressed Internet resources. This allows any resource (e.g., website) to be […]
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Checklist before you shift your website between web hosts
May 28, 2009
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Updated on: 22 Aug 2023
It can be somewhat of a nightmare when you have to migrate from one web hosting provider to another if you are getting more features and services which are not available with your present web host. But before you take the leap of shifting your website, following is an important set of TODOs which can […]
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Greylisting – A great way to block incoming spam emails
May 18, 2009
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Updated on: 25 Oct 2023
Greylisting is a new weapon to use against spam. With this new shielding method, by which you may block out huge amounts of spam, you are sure to please your email users! In name, as well as operation, greylisting is related to whitelisting and blacklisting. What happens is that each time a given mailbox receives […]
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Load Balancing Overview
Apr 14, 2009
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Updated on: 25 Oct 2023
Load balancing is a technique to spread work between two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, and minimize response time. Using multiple components with load balancing, instead of a single component, may increase reliability through redundancy. The balancing service is usually […]
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What is a content delivery network?
Mar 31, 2009
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Updated on: 13 Nov 2023
CDN stands for content delivery network in which there a farm of servers separated geographically which helps in faster organizing, storing, and streaming web site content (images, text, video and other static content) to end-users. Rather than serving content directly from the host server to the end-user, the Content Delivery Network moves the content source […]
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Webhostingtalk (WHT) has been hacked
Mar 26, 2009
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Updated on: 25 Oct 2023
I am shocked beyond belief to note that www.webhostingtalk.com, the largest web hosting discussion forum on the web, is offline. Its not only offline, its data backups (onsite and offsite) alongwith the current site data has been completely wiped out and the only backup which they have is written on a set of DVD disks […]