Dediserve is happy to be sponsoring the Best News/Current Affairs Blog category in this years Irish Blog Awards.

The awards take place March27th in the Radisson Blu hotel in Galway.

This is the First year dediserve has sponsored the awards, the nominations for the Best News/Current Affairs Blog are :

(more…)

As part of dediserves continued improvement in our services , were happy to announce we have now launched a DNS management tool to all our customers.

The DNS management tool will provide full management for all customers over their domains.

(more…)

Here at dediserve, we understand the massive importance security plays in the day to day management of the data on your server, in a recent blog post we went through a short tutorial on setting up IPTables on your Virtual Server.

As a follow up to that blog post we will now look at an additional peice of opensource software that will enhance the use of IPtables whilst reducing the amount of work needed in terms of administration on your server.

This is done by installing and setting up the opensource Fail2ban software on your linux virtual machine – Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules dynamically to reject the IP address.

For this installation i will be using Ubuntu 8.04:

(more…)

Below is a recent interview given to Adrian Weckler From the Sunday Business Post entitled  – Dummies Guide To Virtualisation.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4izU5LQQMw

One of the most important aspects of managing your linux virtual server , is to know what exactly your server is up to at any one time.

Being on top of this allows you to tweak your server for better performance dynamically before your load times start to suffer.

You should look out for issues Including:

• Storage bottlenecks
• CPU and Memory Bottlenecks
• Network Bottlenecks

All these have the ability to slow down and undermine the performance of your server. Below i will provide some free/opensource monitoring tools you can use to access this information via the command line on your linux server.

(more…)