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Your CentOS 5.5 Slice will be a bare-bones install when it's created. We need to connect via SSH and secure it as soon as possible. Your new slice These two articles will take you from a 'barebones' CentOS 5.5 Slice to a secured and up-to-date Slice ready for your server software (or whatever you use the Slice for). Not only that, you will have a better understanding of what is going on and, more

If you decided to install Nginx via source (see the previous article) you would have the latest and greatest version. However, one disadvantage of installing from source is that init scripts are not created. No problem, let's go ahead and create one for easy control of Nginx and to ensure it restarts on a reboot. Assumption I am assuming you have followed the previous article and installed Nginx f

Latest Article: Install Nagios3 on Debian 5.0 Lenny We show how to configure nginx on a 32-bit slice to serve dynamically-created content. Along the way, we show off a couple of troubleshooting techniques and how to work around the lack of a pre-compiled fastcgi package for Debian 5.0 Lenny. The Nginx Web Server is a light weight and versatile server that can be configured for all the different ta

So you've followed the Nginx self signed certificate article and now you want to configure Nginx to serve your site on the standard HTTPS port (443). With Nginx, it is very easy to configure your virtual host to use a secure connection. Defaults Enabling SSL support for your site is very simple and involves the addition of just a few lines to the virtual host file. Go ahead and open up your virtua

Nginx is a popular lightweight server for those who do not need the bulk and extra services that Apache may offer. This article will look at installing Nginx on a CentOS Slice using the 'yum' package manager. Yum Using the inbuilt package manager to install packages is a great idea as it solves dependency issues and you are assured of any security updates if, and when, they occur. However, one dra

These Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex articles will take you from a 'barebones' Ubuntu Intrepid Slice to a secured and up to date Slice ready for your server software (or whatever you use the Slice for). Securing your Slice as soon as possible is a great way of starting your Slice administration. Log in As soon as you have your IP address and password for your Slice, login via SSH: ssh root@123.45.67.890 If

These CentOS articles will take you from a 'barebones' CentOS 5.1 Slice to a secured and up to date Slice ready for your server software (or whatever you use the Slice for). Not only that, you will have a better understanding of what is going on and, more importantly, why it's going on. Log in On your LOCAL computer, edit the SSH known_hosts file and remove any entries that point to your Slice IP

A common way of handling email for your domain is to use Google Apps. However, there can be some confusion in setting up the Mail Exchange (MX) records. Let's go through the procedure now. Real Life There is no way of using a 'dummy' domain for this so I used one of my own domains (mov2.net). The entire process took around 5 minutes from creating a Google Apps account, verifying the domain and the

In this Ubuntu LTS setup guide, we have a basic Ubuntu LTS slice, either a new slice or a reinstalled slice. Now we need to access the slice and secure it as soon as possible. Log in: On your LOCAL computer, edit the SSH known_hosts file and remove any entries that point to your slice IP address. If this is a brand new VPS then you will not need to do this, but an OS reinstall will result in a dif

Latest Article: Slicehost Maintenance and Upgrades FAQ As part of our ongoing effort to provide you with the best Slicehost service possible, we routinely perform maintenance and upgrades of our underlying systems.  The majority of these are performed non-disruptively, however maintenances sometimes arise that impact customer slices. Our Slice tutorials and articles take you through setting up, in