Over the last couple of months we have covered alot of security Issues with regards how to best secure and manage your VPS.

We have covered such topics as:

• VPS Security Made Easy
• Configuring IPTables on Your VPS
• Opensource Back-Up Tools
• Assasinate That Spam

This Blog post is going to offer an additional layer of security for customers using the Fedora 12 Operating system on thier Virtual server.By using the popular opensource Clam AV software with some modifications , we are going to have it scan all files FTP’d to our fedora 12 server and delete any files that look like malware.

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It comes pre-installed in virtualmin with that template and can be activated within your virtualmin control panel.

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One of the most recent Virtual machine operating systems we launched was fedora 12, this OS has proved very popular so i have put together a quick tutorial for setting up the webserver Lighttpd with PHP5 and Mysql.

About Lighttpd

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility — all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it’s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. Its high speed io-infrastructure allows them to scale several times better with the same hardware than with alternative web-servers.

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Were Happy to announce that the fedora linux template is now live, you can re-install your VPS via your control panel. Or sign up for a new VPS and selecting the Fedora Linux template in the drop down menu.

Your Fedora server will be built within five to ten mintues.

To read more about fedora 12 and what is included see http://fedoraproject.org/

We’re happy to announce that we should be able to launch the Fedora linux template to our product offerings this week. This is as a direct result of customer feedback and what you wanted added.

I’ll post an update as soon as we have the template live. In the meantime feel free to leave any feedback you might have on additional templates , or functionality you would like to see added. We are continuously adding improvements to our systems to provide the best VPS product in the marketplace.