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Magento eCommerce Website Design

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:12:23 +0000

Magento eCommerce Website Design Features

We can provide you with quality Magento website design & website development solutions.

We can design and develop Magento websites that are tailored to your business needs.

Magento eCommerce is one of the most feature rich eCommerce platforms available. Being Open Source, websites designed in Magento can be built for a fraction of [...]

Affordable Website Package

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:36:21 +0000

Affordable Website and hosting Package

Our affordable package price of $799.95 includes all that you will need to get online.

Package Features:

A seven page web site powered by the latest CMS backend system. 100 of your own @mybusiness.com email addresses. 12 month’s full web and email hosting free of charge. A choice from over 20000 design templates. A customer contact form. Your [...]

Shared, Virtual or Dedicated hosting?

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:58:37 +0000

Most people’s needs fit into our popular shared hosting solution, it is quite affordable, fast and stable, however, resources are shared among users and this has drawbacks in terms of performance and configuration flexibility. For example, if your application has a specific server requirement you should not expect the shared server to be re-configured to [...]

How to remove mail accounts

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:48:52 +0000

There is no problem to remove any added email accounts.

To delete a mail account, simply click on the [X] button next to it.

You will be taken to a page which asks you for confirmation. Click on Yes to delete the account.

Create Email Accounts

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:45:34 +0000

You can easily create e-mail accounts from your hosting account Control Panel (cPanel). Here is what you need to do:

Step 1: Log into your cPanel

Step 2: Once at the main page, click on the Email Accounts icon.

Step 3: In the fields provided, type the name of the account, the password and the disk [...]

Install BFD (Brute Force Detection – optional)

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:19:47 +0000

To install BFD, SSH into server and login as root.

At command prompt type: cd /root/ wget http://www.rfxnetworks.com/downloads/bfd-current.tar.gz tar -xvzf bfd-current.tar.gz cd bfd-0.4 ./install.sh

After BFD has been installed, you need to edit the configuration file.

At command prompt type: pico /usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd

Under Enable brute force hack attempt alerts: Find ALERT_USR=”0″ and change it to ALERT_USR=”1″

Find EMAIL_USR=”root” and change it to EMAIL_USR=”your@email.com”

Save the changes then exit.

To start BFD

At command prompt type: /usr/local/sbin/bfd -s

Modify LogWatch Logwatch [...]

More Security Measures

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:19:13 +0000

These are measures that can be taken to secure your server, with SSH access.

Update OS, Apache and CPanel to the latest stable versions. This can be done from WHM/CPanel.

Restrict SSH Access To restrict and secure SSH access, bind sshd to a single IP that is different than the main IP to the server, and on a different [...]

Web Host manager and CPANEL mods.

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:18:50 +0000

These are items inside of WHM/Cpanel that should be changed to secure your server.

Goto Server Setup =>> Tweak Settings Check the following items…

Under Domains Prevent users from parking/adding on common internet domains. (ie hotmail.com, aol.com)

Under Mail Attempt to prevent pop3 connection floods Default catch-all/default address behavior for new accounts – blackhole (according to ELIX – set this to FAIL, which [...]

Install a root breach DETECTOR and EMAIL WARNING

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:18:29 +0000

If someone does happen to get root, be warned quickly by installing a detector and warning at your box. You will at least get the hackers/spammers ip address and be warned someone is in there.

Server e-mail everytime someone logs in as root

To have the server e-mail you everytime someone logs in as root, SSH into [...]

Root kit checker – http://www.chkrootkit.org/

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:18:05 +0000

Check for root kits and even set a root kit on a cron job. This will show you if anyone has compromised your root. Always update chrootkit to get the latest root kit checker. Hackers and spammers will try to find insecure upload forms on your box and then with injection methods, try to upload [...]