(D)DoS Deflate is a shell script developed by Zaf, originally for use on MediaLayer servers to assist in combating denial of service attacks. However, it was seen to be very effective for their purpose, and therefore was released as a contribution to the web hosting community. (D)DoS Deflate is now used by not only many web hosts, but by many people who run their own servers looking for additional security in dealing with such attacks.

How to install:

* Login to your server via SSH as root

* Download the script:
wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.sh

* Run the installer:
sh install.sh

Your done, ddos deflate is now installed and you can tweak its configuration at /usr/local/ddos/ddos.conf

Remember that ddos deflate will protect you from small ddos attacks, but if your under heavy ddos attacks, you will need to contact your server provider, and some of the things you also need to consider is getting a hardware firewall or increasing your server resources, so it wouldn’t crash under pressure.

One such innovative solution is server colocation hosting, which is appropriate for large companies or companies that need a high level of flexibility and control over the technology behind their website. In colocation solutions, your business owns a server that a colocation host connects to the internet. You have complete control over the hardware installed in your server, the software and configuration your server runs, and how both hardware and software are maintained; the colocation host handles your connection to the internet as well as the provision of stable power, cooling, physical security, and many of the other necessary “secondary” costs of operating a server.

As part of their services, colocation hosts typically offer comprehensive and complimentary customer support and guarantees against your website becoming unavailable due to a failure in their facilities or internet access – which would otherwise cost you valuable traffic as an ordinary hosting company performed time-consuming maintenance… or valuable dollars as you paid technicians for an after hours emergency call to your own hosting facility.

Colocation hosts typically charge a set up or start up fee at the beginning of a contract and a monthly fee to cover the cost of rented utilities and bandwidth, but these costs tend to be cheaper over time than similar alternatives. In addition, purchasing the server itself to provide for colocation represents another necessary starting cost – but many colocation providers have package deals or provide other services to help you acquire the necessary equipment.

On the whole, colocation represents an excellent investment for companies that aren’t prepared for the costs of maintaining independent server facilities but who still require a large scope of control over their servers or the ability to serve larger numbers of concurrent customers than a traditional hosting company can handle. Choosing colocation as a hosting solution allows for businesses to keep control over the majority of their internet resources and to have a high quality and reliable level of bandwidth service that can scale up with high levels of traffic while keeping overall costs low.

However, while colocation as a general solution is an excellent investment in theory, individual colocation companies may change that. it is important to compare colocation providers, as costs – as well as quality of service, physical server location, contract terms and service guarantees, and bandwidth speed and limits – can all vary extensively from colocation host to colocation host.

If you choose wisely, however, a colocation solution can serve as a stable means of projecting an internet presence – and, by extension, improving your market strategy – for years to come.

Emily Jacobson – Writing has always been one of my passions but it was only when I discovered the wonderful world of blogging that I realized all the possibilities that existed for channelling my creativity. In only a few short years, I have had the opportunity to write about many interesting subjects on various tech blogs. From history of virtual reality to advice guides on server colocation hosting for Hosting.com.

cd /usr/local/src

Download the packages from its source:

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9225/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2

Extracting the packages we just downloaded:

tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.1.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz
tar jxvf essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
tar zxvf flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6.tgz

Creating a directory to store all the codecs:

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/

Now we install the packages:

yum install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran
yum install subversion ruby ncurses-devel

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
cd /usr/local/src

Lets copy the codecs for mplayer:

mv /usr/local/src/essential-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

Installing Lame:

cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install

Installing Libogg:

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install

Installing libvorbis:

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.1.2
./configure && make && make install

Installing flvtool2:

cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2_1.0.5_rc6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure && make && make install

Installing ffmpeg:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libogg –enable-libvorbis –disable-mmx –enable-shared
make && make install

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.50 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.51 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51

Installing ffmpeg-php:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Finally we restart apache server:

service httpd restart

Please note that the following steps will explain how to install ioncube loader on a linux server. Also keep in mind that you will need root shell access to the server.

1 – Download ionCube from the source to your server. Make note that the following link is for Linux 64 Bit.

wget http://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

2 – Now we extract the  downloaded file.

tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

3 – Lets move the ioncube folder to a new permanent location.

mv ioncube /usr/local

4 – Its time to edit your php.ini file.

pico /usr/local/lib/php.ini or nano /usr/local/lib/php.ini

5 – Add the following to your php.ini file below [ZEND]

zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

6 – Now you need to restart your apache server and your done.

service httpd restart

Its a simple widget so there shouldn’t be any bugs, but if you find any bugs, please report it here. This is version 1, I might later rework it and release a better one with more features and addons. If you like this widget, I would appreciate it if you give this website a link in your web directory

How to install:

• Download it and then unzip it.
• Upload the folder ‘Banners” to your site under “Widgets” folder.
• Goto your website admin area and “Install” the widget “Banners’”.

Demo: Demo Link
Download: 125*125 PHPLD Banner Widget

Since google pagerank update is coming soon, ScanPagerank.com is a simple but powerfull tool to monitor your pagerank, keeping in mind that most of the pagerank checking sites now adays, are bugged or simply blocked by google. The most famous pagerank checker that is currently bugged/blocked by google is DigPagerank.com, which I personally used to visit alot.

For more information: Check Google Pagerank – Multi Data Centers

How Do I Get Traffic To My Site?
To obtain the traffic to the site you need to rank higher than other sites within the search engine process.  Adding Meta tags while submitting your sites address to numerous search engine directories is not enough.  You must build a site which is rich in content.  Ranking and placement methodologies are needed to beat your competition in rankings. You must outsmart your competition.  Knowing the keywords and data utilized by your competitor is crucial.  Place your keywords wisely and a lot better with less effort involved.
Where no company can promise #1 ranking with search engines, top ten rankings can definitely be achieved.  Choose the right keywords, know what site submission is and know your competition.  You need advanced strategies to perform these actions.

What Keywords Do I Choose?
Choose your keywords wisely.  The process of “brainstorming” is a great place to start.  Make a short or long list of words people would utilize to find your website.  Utilize these key words “prime the keyword pump”.  Select keywords which you think the users will be typing into the search engine to find your website.  This will aid in finding out if the competition is utilizing the same keywords.  Keep track of URL’s that you know are high ranking in the search engine such as your competitors URL’s.  Individually place your keywords into the search engine while viewing the individual pages that pop up.

Keep in mind that over excessive use of the same keywords over and over can cause a search engine to ignore the keywords, especially if they are not related to the content of the website.  You can have few keywords or as many as 100 major keywords if properly done.

Spamming Technologies
Major search engines do perform plagiarism tests.  It is very important to mix up your keywords.  Make sure they are not identical; this can be performed by mixing up the keywords in the ALT attributes of the image tags.  Do not replicate content; this can create penalties for your website.  Duplicate content is actually a management problem when SEO Optimization is being performed.

How Do I Submit To Search Engines?
Once the same words are in your title as well as Meta Keywords and descriptions and you are satisfied with the keywords, then submit the URL’s to major search engines.  If you are not getting the search engine results you desire, you can either increase or decrease your keyword frequency.

Placement Services
You may want to utilize placement services for the finishing touches on your website.  These companies work for small and large companies.  These services are usually offered to websites who deal with thousands of pages.  Sometimes improvement of a few percentage points can yield the difference of thousands of dollars.  These services are usually offered for reasonable fees even to smaller website owners.

1. Login to the old server and make sure it has enough disk space for all accounts to be backed up. I recommand using Putty which can be downloaded here: http://www.putty.org/

2. mkdir /home/massbackup

3. for i in `ls -1 /var/cpanel/users`;do echo $i >> /home/massbackup/accts;/scripts/pkgacct $i;mv /home/cpmove-* /home/massbackup;done

4. cd /home;tar zcpf massbackup.tar.gz massbackup

5. scp /home/massbackup.tar.gz root@xx.xx.xx.xx:/home/   ”Replace xx.xx.xx.xx with your NEW server IP”

6. Enter root’s password of new VPS.

7. Now close your putty connection with the OLD VPS and login to the NEW VPS using Putty.

8. cd /home;tar zxpf massbackup.tar.gz;mv massbackup/* /home;for i in `cat /home/accts`;do echo restoring $i;/scripts/restorepkg $i;done

Your done! Hope you find this information usefull

I’m going to help write a series of tips, but mostly I leave a message which is far more important than any advice you can receive: “The real opportunity to earn money resides in our own talent and ability to act.” Then write some very simple things that most of us can imagine or create, or even accelerate, the income on line.

Another point is no less significant than the difference between people who earn money on the internet and no, this in people who apply what they learn and those that are thinking. I imagine that you are in the first group. Anyway, here are the tips that you want to convey today

1. Advertise your website in different languages. With the Internet around the world as an income opportunity and this is demonstrated. The only limits are the volume of traffic, you still need more, and also communication. Obviously if some people can not read your website certainly does not buy what you got to offer. But there are supplements that can help and can be placed on the web, and then this will lead to a number of languages without having to build a new website for each language.

2. Surprise your guests with a special bonus “when they buy.” There is a strong likelihood that your customers purchase from you again, if you give more than you expected.

3. Remember your customers at parties. Send greeting cards online, will give you the opportunity to increase your sales, but do not forget to use some cunning and include ads on the cards.

4. Do not try to sell a golf ball in a fishing magazine.
Your products and services should be marketed to your target audience. Nobody goes to a hardware store to buy bodices!

5. Increase recurring purchases. Give your customers the opportunity to buy new products when they buy one of your main products or services, or promotions with special advantages. A happy customer always returns.

6. Be creative with bonds, options, delivery or payment options and find out how this can be very helpful in attracting customers to buy your products or services.

7. Gives others the opportunity to sell your product through an affiliate program, are important forces more sales without having to do all the work.

8. Attend either your current and potential customers. When leaving a message or send an email, respond promptly. If you keep in touch with them on a regular basis will remain in your mind and overcome your competition.

9. Study your competition. Find other methods of advertising and marketing by studying the ideas and materials from other companies.

10. Educate, take courses to learn new strategies and increase your sales, the internet is very dynamic. Subscribe to publications and electronic journals. Learning is always a good companion. Learn more about the expectations of your customers; this can only further increase your sales exponentially.

And remember, we repeat one of the real key is the study of competition and keep the customer well served. The timing is always right in front of your eyes and also there is always the possibility of increasing the amount of your income online.