Objectives: 1. To build white box for running ESXi 2. Support up to 64GB DDR4 3. Total power consumption below 30 watt on idle 4. Expandable, with PCI expansion slots and multiple SATA ports 5. Cheap as possible Part lists (as of October 2017) Intel – Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor RM 320.00 (Lazada) -poor-man’s… Read More »
I just noticed that my VPS just expired 3 weeks ago, and there is no way to retrieve it back. That VPS equipped with 128MB RAM, 10GB HDD space for USD4.99 per year (damn cheap). Then I’m seeking for another poor man VPS. I do not need humongous memory and disk space, just enough for… Read More »
The purpose of the tutorial is to setup an ads blocking using Bind9 DNS Server. Tutorial is divided into 2 section: Setup Pixelserv and Setup AdBlock script for Bind9. 1. Setup Pixelserv Pixelserv is a super minimal webserver, it’s one and only purpose is serving a 1×1 pixel transparent gif file. We will redirect web… Read More »
This article will guide you step by step to get Bind DNS running. Install Dependencies: [email protected]:~# apt-get update [email protected]:~# apt-get upgrade [email protected]:~# apt-get install build-essential openssl libssl-dev libdb5.1-dev Download Bind: [email protected]:~# wget ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.9.7/bind-9.9.7.tar.gz Unpack Bind: [email protected]:~# tar zxvf bind-9.9.7.tar.gz Configure and then compile Bind9 source pre: [email protected]:~# fakeroot ./configure –prefix=/usr –mandir=/usr/share/man –infodir=/usr/share/info –sysconfdir=/etc/bind –localstatedir=/var –enable-threads… Read More »
Since CloudFlare acts as a reverse proxy for websites, CloudFlare’s IPs are going to show in your server logs. This can be easily identified from awstats or webalizer. There is an easy fix to restore original visitor IP for any web server. 1) Copy the source file mod_cloudflare.c to your web server. wget https://raw.github.com/cloudflare/CloudFlare-Tools/master/mod_cloudflare.c 2)… Read More »