A very quick tip. If you are trying to use the Crontab section of a CPanel (reseller account, etc), you may have some issues trying to setup a simple wget when trying to just get a simple webpage. You’ll get some “AJAX ERROR” please refresh. Very annoying with no error […]
We ran into a situation recently, where a wildcard SSL cert was purchased for a customer. When setting up the cert for the entire server, WHM/CPANEL would not tag the default CPANEL account with the new cert. Apache would serve the SSL, but the Apache conf file was not picking […]
We are often times asked to work on clients servers that range greatly in hardware and software platforms. It seems that no two VPS/Cloud servers are configured the same, nor do they have the same user permissions to install/compile modules into PHP/Lamp. This can be a pain if we need […]
We recently started research work for a potential grant and some of the project focused on dynamic visualization of data sources. A few years ago we had done some work for a client in visualizing aircraft telemetry data using the stand-along Google Earth client. At that time, the Google Earth […]
Silva Tech Solutions LLC is proud to announce that we are now members of the Cloud Security Alliance, Delaware Valley Chapter. The Cloud Security Alliance is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses […]
As part of one of our data integration projects, we were asked to process some web form data through a third party webservice. The web form was built in PHP, and our standard PHP webservice library has always been to use NuSOAP tool kit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/). It has always been easier […]
We’ve recently moved a large client from an ill performing “Virtual Private Server” hosting provider to a more robust solution at a different vendor. We came up with a generic questionnaire to help future clients plan for a move/new system. 1.) What are your needs? Is it a new deployment […]
From Wikipedia , Cloud computing is described as: Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid. When you are purchasing hosting from a hosting company, beware that the term “Cloud” may be mis-used and […]
If you run a linux site that is exposed to the internet, check the /var/log/auth.log or /var/log/secure log files. Chances are you’ll see a bunch of ‘ Failed password for user ‘ attacks on your site.
I recently was having horrible download rates on some VMWare ubuntu images that are hosted on a beefy Win7 box.
