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I have been thinking about this for a few days and would like to get the enlightened members of VPSB on this. Sometimes users create services and struggle to find the resources necessary to set them up, or have trouble doing so. Support can always help but not everyone asks for it. Its rare but...

Am I going crazy? Cant seem to figure out why any query made to the Spamhaus DNSBL isnt returning an answer, even their examples given at http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/DNSBL%20Usage Colocrossing IP: # dig 0.56.94.23.zen.spamhaus.org A ; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>>...

Have you ever encountered a piece of software that didn't include a feature to allow it to be bound to a specific IP? Or connect to a remote server (IP) via a specific interface or source IP? Unfortunately this is far to common, either with Open Source software or even more common with...

Does anyone know how to go about reporting transactions received from stolen Paypal accounts? I cant seem to find anywhere (and I don't want to phoneticify over the phone). Having recognized the pattern I have refunded all the received payments. A certain new hosting company (isnt summer...

Currently when working with file handles / descriptors I have observed the following behaviour. I open a file with fopen() the File Descriptor is 5 I close the file with fclose() I open a new file with fopen() I receive a File Descriptor of 5 Does anyone know if this is specified anywhere...

A question to all the serious software architects here (I hope there are some!). I am currently looking to improve exception handling (currently most of our exceptions are of the standard PHP types). Got a few questions, want to do this right.... What policies do you use when categorizing...

As some people know, our monitoring network is made up over 20 low - mid range VPS services and a couple small dedicated servers. This is the 12 month review of the companies chosen. In all reports outages / packet loss less than a few minutes is not reported due to difficulty in recording and...

Does any one else feel the need for some gaming comes the end of the week? Or perhaps every day :P I am not sure what games people play, but If we can agree on something (or a couple somethings) and it would get some use I am happy to set one up. I am a bit of a Minecraft & Garrysmod fan myself.

I want to create a synchronised / remote home directory setup, the idea would be to provide working space to staff members to use on remote nodes. This space would be in sync between all nodes, ideally not actually stored on the nodes themselves but on a remote server and accessed via something...

How to replace puush.sh and similar services with a self hosted (via SFTP) variant Requirements / Software:: WinSCP Greenshot A VPS/server with a SSH server (and SFTP support) nginx to serve the images Steps: On your server create the /var/www/image directory (mkdir /var/www/), ensure that...

My project for the past month (during hobby time) has been the development of an Open Source .NET abstraction library for IPTables on Linux (although any *nix / BSD should be compatible). Its designed to replace a non Open Source library I developed years ago and used for a few utilities. Its...

Does anyone have a nice template for building an init.d startup script for staring a daemon (including arguments) that runs in a detached screen instance (which can be inspected at a later date). I've been meaning to develop one myself but have not had the time. Requirements: start / stop /...

If you use your hosting company or datacenter provided DNS servers you have probably experienced your fair share of blips and outages of these services. Although some companies are quite good, some can be quite bad. Lots of programs seem to behave strangely when DNS servers listed in...

Warning: A bit of a ramble. Over the years on multiple occasions I have had to write software that takes messages sent from one server (remote) and does something (e.g insertion into a database or executing some script etc). This tutorial/guide will cover my current implementation and include...

I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting Bitcoin for all our services. Its been a long time coming and a much requested payment method. FYI we are utilizing BitPay as our payment processor, a really great system that is relatively easy to integrate. Account balance is still expressed...

We are looking to make a change in our development process. Namely moving from a manual "check the CI system" to something that is more integrated into the deployment and development process. We previously used scrutinizer-ci but it does not meet our needs in this area. I have applied for a...

I got to stop getting distracted....   Actions? Media? Media - A method of executing of sending a message. e.g SMS, Email or custom script. It is in this section you also define configuration such as the email address to send the email from and the SMTP server to use. This section is found under...

For this tutorial I will be showing how to get Zabbix to automatically create items and triggers for you... sound too good to be true? Its entirely possible, we just have to tell Zabbix how to create those triggers and for this we use Low Level Discovery (LLD) rules - not to be confused with...

So have you created your first trigger yet?  If I have made any mistakes in this post let me know. Flapping Presuming you have created your first triggers, you might have noticed that unlike Nagios Zabbix does not include automatic Anti-Flap detection, that is triggers can go on and off...

Part 3 (in case you havent figured it out by now there is no particular order to my ramblings). I will probably bug a mod to rename these into order when I am done. What are trappers? Instead of asking the agent for the values defined on the server side, the monitored location can decide what...