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[ALEXEI_M]

Very useful thread. Thanks for your post.

[1llusion]

Wow thanks! Will install it right now on my VPS

[Mrkrabz]

Thanks, ill keep it in mind with my next VPS

[DevilCrab]

wow that is really amazing to learn !

i think someone who can expert this can secure VPS to a good and long extreme !

[Boxxed]

Originally Posted by DevilCrab

wow that is really amazing to learn !

i think someone who can expert this can secure VPS to a good and long extreme !

Ofcourse, someone who is expert or a newbie can secure there VPS's by the help of this guide

[Carbon Host]

wow, very nice tutorial! keep up the good work

[BA-Corey]

If anyone is finding this on google then please note that the download location has changed for root kit checker.

http://www.net-security.org/dl/softw...rootkit.tar.gz

[ferlie]

Originally Posted by YDGH-Corey

If anyone is finding this on google then please note that the download location has changed for root kit checker.

http://www.net-security.org/dl/softw...rootkit.tar.gz

Thanks for the linkz

[Losvre]

Great stuff even for people who think they know all:-)

Thank you all

[GeckoNetwork]

Very nice tutorial and very easy to understand but I would also include a firewall like (CFS).

Thanks!

@Bluz, Regarding your WHMCS issue I have experiencing this in the past and it for me to fix this I had to go back to the old version of WHMCS before the update.


Hope that helps good luck!

[andrewlarioza]

Hi,

Just an additional idea on how to secure Apache web server.
a. Disable TRACE and TRACK
- This will save you a headache on some of Cross site tracing vulnerability. just simply add the following at the end of your Apache main config and restart the services. By default trace is enabled on all apache web server upon installation.

httpd.conf

TraceEnable off

HTH.

regards,
Andrew

[holhostcom]

Perfect post!
Thank You!
Could you add some MySQL optimizations as well ?

[wahuu]

Excellent guide...
Look forward for new optimization tools...

[CronicHosting]

Awesome write up, detailed tutorial.

Keep up the good work,

Sean

[Greg-NH]

Anyone know where I can find something similar to this topic that isn't outdated?

I'm trying to secure & optimize my pretty stock CentOS 6.3 w/ WHM/cPanel VPS

Thanks,
Greg