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How-to Display a Debian Server’s RSA Fingerprint
Aug 19th
Need to verify a rsa host fingerprint for a debian server? Have someone connect and run the following command:
ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
GoDaddy SSL and Hosting Sales!
Feb 4th
$12.99 SSL Certificate
Sometime ago GoDaddy was selling SSL certs for around $14.99 a year. A great price back then, but they’ve recently started selling them at an even lower price. Go pick up a cheap SSL certificate, no clue how long this sale will last!
GoDaddy Hosting Discounts
Also if you’re interested in hosting with them check out their specials here:
Where To Host
Jan 18th
I’ve been pushing forward on a personal project over the last two weeks or so, it’s called WhereToHost and I think it’s brillant. If you’ve heard me talk about it, you already know this, but what you may not know is that the initial beta system is ALMOST ready! I need some help though, would you mind?
Lots of my readers here are webmasters and programmers, you’ve encountered many different systems, scripts, and apps that you like working with. So here is what I need to know and how you can help me….
What PHP apps are your favorites? What scripts are so important that, you believe, this new site of mine wouldn’t be complete without?
Let me know in the comments and I’ll add the systems as they come in! Oh and if you get a chance you should read about my somwhat difficult choice, over on the news blog to the new site.
DreamHost is now Unlimited
Sep 4th
Looks like DH isn ow offering an unlimited plan (space/bandwidth), at least until Septermber 10th. This is actually really good news for people who like to serve up largish type files. I’m talking between 50-100 MB’s, and an especially good deal for people who will be on PS machines, since all those apache connection you would be taking up won’t affect the people on your server!
Awesome!
Now go get your $50 off dreamhost!
DreamHost Invites!
Aug 9th
I’ve got access to five of those wonderful DreamHost invite codes available for someone who wants one! Let me know and I’ll send one your way!
This is what DH says about the codes:
DreamHost Invitations:
- Up our plan features to 2TB disk and 20TB bandwidth!
- Give $150 off a 5-year signup or $200 off a 10-year signup!
- Are way better than regular promo codes.. but are in very limited supply!
Please note: if anbody who used one of your DreamHost Invitations is ever disabled for fraud/spamming/illegal activities, you will immediately lose all current and future invitations… so please be discriminating with these things!
So that last part… no spammers… phishers… and so on and so on should request these codes! If you still want one just comment here!
Basic Instructions for Moving a Website to Dreamhost
Feb 17th
1) Signup for an account
2) Download all files from your current host
3) Get a database dump of any databases you are using
4) Once your account is active add your domain to the dreamhost system <-- getting activated can take a few days so bunker down for a wait
5) Upload all your files to your new account
6) Upload all your databases to new databases on dreamhost
7) Test your site! <-- very important
8) Switch the nameservers – this part is where the real switch is made and can take up to 48 hours for your new host to be used world-wide.
9) Watch a flawless transfer of your website from one host to another :) I love that part.
Let me know if you need help!
Globat = Fraud
Dec 13th
I don’t know how many people they have done this to, but I’m pissed! What have they done you ask? I took a look at my CC bill this month and I found a charge for $49.95 from Globat Business Services. Okay, odd I don’t remember ordering anything even remotely recently from Globat. Apparently I signed up for one of their free promotions sometime back, okay cool so we had a business relationship, no big deal there – where does the fee come from?
Well apparently it seems that Globat (Glob@at) has gotten into the habbit of charging all there customers automatic upgrade fees of $49.95 a pop!!! Going through my past statements and checking the Globat invoices I found that they’ve done this in the past too! A few months ago I was apparently charged the same amount for another “upgrade” without my consent. Oh I’m pissed by this point, checking the, now closed, company email I find that they were about to charge me for another of their automatic upgrades!
So okay, a wave of calm passes over me for about a 5 minutes as I log back into the globat control panel, head to the support section and write them an email requesting them to close my account, reverse their obviously fraudulent charges, and remove my information from their system as I NEVER want to hear from them again. I press send. I feel good, no company really wants to risk their credit rating with the amount of chargebacks that something like this could cause – I mean they would want to keep those customers who complain, quiet… right? Wrong!
A minute passes, I’m closing the window for the email account linked to globat – an email comes in from them. It’s an automatic reply, “Okay, great they recieved the message…. What…. The…. FUCK!” It read:
Thank you for contacting Globat!
Your original message was not received. This is an autoresponder. You cannot send an email directly to this email address. Please use one of the services listed below.
If ever I had more of a reason to be absolutely furious at a company, I can’t remember! I had sent the email through their control panel, this can’t be right… but it is. They are deliberatly blackholing these emails! Needless to say, I’ll be calling my CC company and having them do chargebacks for all the charges up to now. If you’re a current Globat client I suggest you take a look at your statements and watch out for this horrible act of outright theft!
$14.99 SSL Certs at GoDaddy!
Oct 27th
This is something I rarely do, I’m now promoting a rather amazing deal from GoDaddy! They’ve currently got a great deal for SSL certificates. I haven’t seen them cheaper then this in a LONG time. So take advantage of it while you can. Who knows when they’ll stop accepting it.
$14.99 SSL Sale!
There is one thing I do use GoDaddy for, rather consistently in fact, that is their SSL Certificates. GoDaddy SSL certs are the cheapest in town AND recently they’ve had an amazing promotion running. SSL Certificates for only 14.99! Purchase a few of those while the promotion is going on, save the credits for when you’ll need them, it really does add up.
Go Daddy $14.99 SSL Sale!
Problems with FLV and cPanel – Solution: MIME Types
Aug 21st
As it turns out quite a few people seem to be looking for a solution as to why an FLV file won’t load correctly from a cPanel hosted account. For the most part webservers won’t serve a file it doesn’t know about. The problem is in the MIME type setup, and here is how to solve it.
1) Go to your cpanel and look for an icon labeled MIME Types.
2) For MIME Type enter “video/x-flv” (no quotes)
3) For Extension(s) enter flv
4) Click Add
You should be all set!
WHM Full Restore Failed / Failed To Restore Full Backup / AKA The Missing Tarball
Jul 10th
This post is really for people who don’t read everything that comes on their screen. Much like myself I make the very foolish mistake of not going over everything on my screen when an error occurs.
So yesterday when I was moving one of my larger sites (5GB worth of data) to a new server I learned that cPanel actually moves the tarball before it restores it. So if their is a failure you have to go into the directory where the file was moved to and move it back into /home; or whatever directory you have setup for the restore functions to read from.
I didn’t read the line that told me where the file was moved. Here is what I did to find the file for those of you who think they need to get another copy of the tarball.
Login via SSH and type find / -name ‘*username*’ where username is the name the user had on the old server. You can also use the word backup and it’ll find it too.
You’ll most likely find the find in “/root/cprestore” so go in and move the file from there to /home. You’ll be able to run the restore command again without having to transfer the tarball once more.
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