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Like Lionde and other VPS providers, DigitalOcean is adding more functions to its VPS, they will launch Load Balancers in recent feature. For more infomation about Load Balancers, just take a look at the info page .

vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources. Installation It's pretty easy to install vnStat, just run the following command in your console (for CentOS), and it is done. yum -y install vnstat Create vnStat database Before create vnStat database, make sure which network interface you want to monitor, take eth0 for example. vnstat -u -i eth0 It's done, and enjoy vnStat. Command Manual vnstat -h Show traffic statistics on a hourly basis for the last 24 hours. vnstat -d Show traffic statistics on a daily basis for the last 30 days. vnstat -m Show traffic statistics on a monthly basis for the last 12 months. vnstat -l Display current transfer rate for the selected inter...

According to Fortune news, Godaddy will buy Host Europe Group for 1.69 billion euros , including debts. HEG , whose customer base is similar to GoDaddy’s, is one of Europe’s largest independent web hosting firms, and operates brands such as 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet and Host Europe. HEG is currently owned by European private equity firm Cinven Ltd, which acquired the business in August 2013 for 438 million pounds. In 2013, Godaddy bought MediaTemple , Godaddy is expending its web hosting and domain registration service very fast.

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Today, Linode opened a second datacenter in Tokyo , as they promised several months ago. Tokyo 2 is the ninth datacenter around the world, and it offers all of the features and services as other datacenters. If you with to move to Tokyo 2 from other datacenters, you can follow the instructions or open a support ticket and they will configure a migration for you. Enjoy the Tokyo 2 datacenter!

HSTS, which is short for HTTP Strict Transport Security, is a security feature that lets a web site tell browsers that it should only be communicated with using HTTPS, instead of using HTTP. This tutorial will help you setting HSTS in webmin. First, navigate to "Servers"-->"Apache Webserver", click the virtual server with SSL enabled which you want to edit. Then click "Edit Directives" to edit configuration file manually. Second, add the following configs to the bottom of the file. Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains;" Click "Save and close" and restart Apache by clicking the "Apply Changes" on the top right. It's done and now HTTP Strict Transport Security has been enabled. You can run a ssl test here to find if it was enabled.

It's pretty easy to enable Forward Secrecy in Webmin, here is the instruction. First, navigate to "Servers"-->"Apache Webserver", click the virtual server with SSL enabled which you want to edit. Then click "Edit Directives" to edit configuration file manually. Second, add the following configs to the bottom of the file, if it were exist, replace them. SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3 SSLHonorCipherOrder on SSLCipherSuite "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS !RC4" Click "Save and close" and restart Apache by clicking the "Apply Changes" on the top right. It's done and now Forward Secrecy has been enabled. You can run a ssl test here to find if it was enabled.