May 2009 - Xieles Support

War on Remote File Inclusion exploits

Picture this – Your server is running fine all these days. Low load. Low bandwidth. Happy Customers. And the next day, everything goes haywire. High bandwidth being reported by NOC. Customers’ website getting hacked. You start receiving emails complaining about port scans being executed from your server. You get frustrated by all these. [...]

Increasing apache performance with mod_cache and mod_disk_cache

Very recently, I was asked by few of my colleague to performance tune a website, which its web master found too slow to handle requests. The site was already running on a dual quad core processor with 8 GB of RAM. And, the apache configuration was at its maximum to get rocking performance from the [...]