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Will try to reach you via tickets - Thanks Nick!

Some things I have observed, FYI - The iptables raw table does not load from within containers for kernel versions older than 042stab093.4, it was fixed in that version. The iptables string module does not work from within containers for kernel versions older than 042stab092.1, it was fixed...

@MannDude Despite the error when posting as I mentioned above, now I can connect to and browse the forum just fine using Tapatalk. Great and thanks for all your efforts on fixing this!

@MannDude Connecting fine now on my end. However, when I try to post, there is an error: Your security key, used to verify you are posting the topic, did not match the one submitted. Please go back, reload the form, and try again. I then reloaded the forum multiple times, but it didn't work.

@MannDude @HalfEatenPie I have been unable to use Tapatalk to view vpsBoard since a couple weeks ago. It always says failed to connect to the forum. Not sure if others also have this issue. Could the Admins please look into it? Thank you.

Thank you for detailed guide. Just want to mention that I recently wrote a similar tutorial on various Nginx optimization and security tips, including a comprehensive list of web bots to keep your logs clean: https://blog.ls20.com/optimizing-nginx-config-for-your-website-or-blog/

Regarding the decline of WHT, this Google Trends graph says it all : http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=web hosting talk

Personally I like NoMachine 3.5. Version 4 is a pain to use. Unfortunately they had pulled version 3.5 downloads from the official NX website. I managed to get them from an alternative site.

Use AIDE intrusion detection system (aide.sourceforge.net) to make sure no one has made unauthorized changes to your files. Two important considerations: 1. Be sure to start with a "clean" VPS at the time of installing AIDE. 2. Keep a copy of the AIDE database (/var/lib/aide/*) elsewhere, in...

Personally, I use PBX in a Flash which bundles FreePBX, Asterisk along with other useful features. I am running it on a KVM VPS server with good results. You can find a step-by-step install guide as well as an Asterisk security tutorial on my blog.

Those are not my code, hehe. I learned this method when @INIZ mentioned it in an older thread on LET. The code (and blog) was written by someone else on the Internet.

You can achieve this using Monit. Works great for me. Please see: DNS failover for cloudflare with monit http://blog.booru.org/?p=12 Note that the DIUP API method for CloudFlare was deprecated a couple years ago. It is no longer in their documentation. Replace it with a currently supported...

"When using Flexible SSL with Cloudflare, your origin server will *always* accept requests over HTTP (port 80)", Quoted from CF Knowledge base.

Cacti + Threshold plugin

Tutorial has been updated and tested for the latest Ghost blog version 0.5.0. Follow link in the first post to view. FYI - You can create multiple users in this new version.