Think about this for a moment…

What happens when your web host has a failure and your account get’s damaged or worse case scenario, the web host loses everything.?

Do you rely on your web host to take backups for you? Check the fine print of most web hosts terms of service and they will state that they are not responsible for your data, even if it’s their fault. Great isn’t it.

So what’s the solution. Simple. Backup your data regularly.

Let me tell you how to do it on cPanel web servers, it’s quite labour intensive.

a) Go to your http://yourwebsite.com:2082 and enter in your login credentials.
b) Go to the Backup icon (will look different depending on your cPanel theme)
c) Click on the link to download the home directory backup (this will take all your files)
d) Click on the links to download your databases
e) Click on the links to download your email filters or email aliases

Now do that once a week or month for your home directory (files) and everyday for your databases like WordPress, Forums, Shopping Carts, Email Lists.

No thanks I have better things to do with my time.

That’s where Backup Smart comes in. It’s a desktop software application that runs on Windows and MAC OSX. It automates the whole backup process I’ve just outlined for you.

You just set it and forget it. Backups are done on a schedule set by you, it’s just so easy.

If you even have just one website with a database then you need this software to protect your assests. But if you have more than one website on different servers with multiple databases then this software is a huge time saver and you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.

Check out all the details at…
http://atorreso.backup-smart.com

To Your Success,

Anthony Torreso

Command Syntax

find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Note that there are spaces between rm, {}, and \;

Explanation

• The first argument is the path to the files. This can be a path, a directory, or a wildcard as in the example above. I would recommend using the full path, and make sure that you run the command without the exec rm to make sure you are getting the right results.
• The second argument, -mtime, is used to specify the number of days old that the file is. If you enter +5, it will find files older than 5 days.
• The third argument, -exec, allows you to pass in a command such as rm. The {} \; at the end is required to end the command.

This should work on Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, or pretty much any version of linux.

Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/delete-files-older-than-x-days-on-linux/

This is a simple test to tell if AOL has you blocked. First SSH into your server or vps the run this following command.

telnet mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25

If you get a response your not blocked, if no response well you are. Then you have to go down the fun path of fixing this.

Again assuming you can SSH into the box.

yum -y install nano
yum -y install yum-priorities
wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
wget http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm –import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Save and Exit

yum -y install perl-libwww-perl
yum -y update

chkconfig cups off
chkconfig pcmcia off
chkconfig kudzu off
chkconfig isdn off
chkconfig xfs off
chkconfig atd off
chkconfig nfslock off
chkconfig canna off
chkconfig FreeWnn off
chkconfig cups-config-daemon off
chkconfig iiim off
chkconfig mDNSResponder off
chkconfig nifd off
chkconfig rpcidmapd off
chkconfig bluetooth off
chkconfig anacron off
chkconfig gpm off
chkconfig saslauthd off
chkconfig avahi-daemon off
chkconfig avahi-dnsconfd off
chkconfig hidd off
chkconfig pcscd off
chkconfig sbadm off
chkconfig ossec off
chkconfig acpid off
chkconfig dhcpd off
chkconfig firstboot off

mkdir /root/source
cd /root/source
wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz
tar -xzf csf.tgz
cd csf
sh install.sh

nano /etc/csf/csf.conf

Change TESTING=”1″ to TESTING=”0″
AUTO_UPDATES=”0″ to AUTO_UPDATES=”1″

TCP_IN = “20,21,22,25,26,37,43,53,80,106,110,113,143,443,465,587,873,990,993,995,1129,2077,2078,2082,2083,2086,2087,2095,2096,3306,5224,5432,7777,7778,8443,8880,8888,8889,9080,10000,30000:35000″
TCP_OUT = “20,21,22,25,26,37,43,53,80,106,110,113,143,443,465,587,873,990,993,995,1129,2077,2078,2082,2083,2086,2087,2095,2096,3306,5224,5432,7777,7778,8443,8880,8888,8889,9080,10000″
UDP_IN = “20,21,53,953″
UDP_OUT = “20,21,53,113,123,953,33434:33523″

service csf restart
service lfd restart

reboot

. Add Passive Port range 30000-350000 to your Pureftp or Proftp configuration file
(i) Pureftpd
open /etc/pure-ftpd.conf, and this line
PassivePortRange    30000 35000
(ii) ProFTP
Open /etc/proftpd.conf, and add this line
PassivePorts    30000 35000

Now there are many other things you can do, root kit hunters and log rotators and more. However depending on your needs this alone will get you off to a good start.

Add the following lines to the lighttpd.conf file.

server.max-keep-alive-requests = 4
server.max-keep-alive-idle = 4
server.event-handler = “linux-sysepoll”
server.network-backend = “linux-sendfile”
server.max-fds = 8192
server.stat-cache-engine = “simple”

As you can see from the following image, things are moving along nicely.

The current load on the server is 0.0 and the ram used it 66MB’s for live stats check out this link.  System Usage.

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