Nginx Archive
One of the nastiest problems when it comes to webserver resource and bandwidth usage is represented by the bad referrers which associate with a series of artificial queries from various hostnames that spam the crap out of the webserver and statistical logs. Because the accuracy of the statistical traffic reports is highly influenced by such
One of the most recent challenges I came across lately was to block malicious bots, harvesters and crawlers or other similar user-agents that should not access my data in Nginx. I already had such a system in place for Apache as I’m running all public websites with Apache, but since I have Nginx as reverse
Pritunl, with it’s easiest setup mode is a plug’n’play self-hosted VPN service that’s been built on top of OpenVPN. However it can also be used as an enterprise distributed OpenVPN and IPsec server. Since most folks would use it for a self-hosted VPN service I will only focus in this tutorial on the single server
A while back, while searching for a good mail server suite I came across mailcow which was built based on the following open source software: Postfix Dovecot Nginx/Apache2 Spamassassin ClamAV MariaDB/MySQL OpenDKIM Roundcube SabreDAV Given that the suite looked promising and that the screenshots convinced me that it had a modern interface I decided to
I’ve been searching for a solution for private repositories that would not assume paying Github. It was not the money that represented an issue, but actually the security as I wanted it to be more internal and private, while Github was after all subject to a password reuse attack, because if they know it’s public