Is My Domain Name At Risk
May 28, 2007
my domain name expires in July (within 90 days).
It is currently with company A who charge quite a lot to keep it there. I want to move it to company B who are my hosts and with whom I get 1 free domain name.
One added complication is that the domain is in a friends name, but I have logon and can change name to my own any time I want.
Company B said "After it is on our registrar, you will be the only one that can renew it as long as it doesn't expire for longer than 90 days."
This has me worried that because I haven't renewed it withing 90 days that it can be stolen from me. Have I misunderstood or is this a risk?
If so would I be better advised to renew it in my friends name wth company A?
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May 2, 2008
I'm a Windows guy and can little or nothing about Linux. How big risk do I take if I'm using a Linux VPS and never update/patch the kernel?
I'm using CentOS 5 and LxAdmin. I can update the control panel, but I can not update/patch the kernel since I have no knowledge how I do that.
I'm using a unmanaged plan, so no help there.
Some of my sites are running Wordpress, but I'm always using the lates WP installation. I not using any other plugins that WG2, Gallery2, and remove max width.
Nobody except me have access to the VPS, and I have no other FTP accounts or something like that on the VPS.
I have no other scripts or any kind of dynamic pages on my VPS.
What kind of risk do I have here?
I'm currently having plans to cancel my second VPS that's using Win2003, and only use Linux in the future. I can cut my monthly expensive with 50% that way, but do I take a big risk doing it that way?
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A customer has requested we install a pear package called crypt_blowfish for there website which sells items.
What exactly is it? Is there any risk in installing the extension?
Ive not heard of it myself before
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Mar 25, 2009
What sort of redundancy that is recommended for a high risk site?
My definition of high risk is it will attract more hackers than usual, more DDOS, chances of blocked by ISP and etc.
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Apr 26, 2008
At present I run SSH on a different port then normal to protect root. This has worked for two years, but with discovering that cPanel finally support SFTP without shell access needed, I want to finally turn off FTP and require SFTP. The problem is the port I am using. Since it's a random port I have been secured against root attacks (well nothing has shown up). I am with LiquidWeb which is fully managed. So I guess they take care of allot of prevention.
This is what I am thinking of doing. move SSH back to port 22 (I only host a few friends sites and want to be hosting 20 accounts by end of year to cover my costs). Then disabled root password and require SSH keys. Would this be strong as secure as running SSH on a high #port or am I fooling myself.
I could also add in for good measure restricting root SSH/SFTP (yes I prefer SFTP for file management as I am legally blind and using Transmit+BBEdit is allot easier for me for editing files). The problem with restricting to certain IP's, is that Shaw charges $30/month more for a static IP and I also am at my moms 25% of the time (and she is also with Shaw). I think the XXXX.vs.shawcable.net is static but I am not 100% sure.
I really do want to kill FTP so that only port 80 is the only non SSL port open.
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Mar 10, 2007
There are always people who would like to know what the php settings are on the server. Is it a security risk to share the phpinfo.php file on a website, with anybody who visits that website, able to view it?
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Mar 20, 2008
A friend of mine owns a hosting company and a client of his asked to have mbstring and mysqli installed. What he wants to know is , is there any security risks if he does install that on his server?
Also, he wants to know, if there is not, what how does he go about installing that on the server?
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Does writing large files (ie, 10GB backups in one archive) cause any risk of damaging a linux filesystem?
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Jul 19, 2007
During my poking around performance tips I found the DELAY_KEY_WRITE option (and innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0 for innodb)
which supposedly for mysql will disable the immediate disk flush for every transaction written and instead update only once every second at most?
One thing I've never had to restart on my vps is mysql, it's been great. So is this safe to turn on? Am I risking corruption? Will the performance gain be worth it with only a 16M cache?
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Mar 19, 2007
I did a quick search on this and could not see it as already being posted
It seems quite a clever but simple idea - remove a lot of the oxygen from the air to help reduce the risk of fire. What do those of you operating your own facilities make of this? Is anyone already doing this?
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Aug 19, 2013
I see in the maillogs a number of errors lots of different Certificate Authorities - and some I really did NOT expect to see here:
[root@web48002 admin]# grep ' certificate verification failed for' /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog | wc -l
998
[root@web48002 admin]# grep ' certificate verification failed for' /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog | head
Aug 19 00:04:45 web48002 postfix/smtp[28115]: certificate verification failed for inbound.hsaforamerica.com.netsolmail.net[206.188.198.64]:25: untrusted issuer /C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
[Code] ....
How/where do we edit our CA file under Postfix - and why is the standard one installed by PPA not including some of these VERY MAJOR CAs?!?
I would like instructions on how to edit this in a manner that it will not get overwritten by some PPA update or yum update.
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Mar 25, 2008
I just started using FileZilla Client, as a way of allowing business clients to upload to an ftp account at my website (the ftp account is a subdirectory of my public_html directory, and has its own username and password).
I noticed that, along with other information for each file listed at that subdirectory, FileZilla also posts info on "owner" and "group". It turns out that, for each of these fields, FileZilla displays the username of my entire site -- not the username specifically associated with the particular ftp account to which FileZilla had connected. Thankfully, it doesn't also display the password that goes along with it!
I'm wondering if anyone would know:
- does this constitute a significant security risk?
- is this because of actions on the part of my web host, or because of FileZilla's programming? (ie, would the same thing occur in all ftp clients?)
- if this is a significant security risk, would there be any workaround?
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Nov 16, 2014
When I hit my server's domain it redirects me to one of the hosted sites' domain with a 302 redirect. It used to return the default plesk server page. How can I cancel the redirect?
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May 6, 2007
OK, I am confused. I have one domain that is parked on top of another domain. I would like Mail that comes to the parked domain to be automatically forwarded to the same user name at the primary domain.
Can I change a DNS or MX record to facilitate this?
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Nov 5, 2008
We have a lot of unused domains that we'd like to setup domain parking for.
To keep it simple, we'd like to just change the namesevers to ns1.domainparking.com and ns2.domainparking.com (not real nameservers!) and the domains would then automatically show a simple web page.
We use cpanel servers and are wondering how easy this is to do? I've seem mention of wildcard dns? Is that the answer?
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Aug 3, 2007
i have about 8 different domains i'd like to point to a nameserver (ns1./ns2.mydomain.com) on Win2k3 server, but i can't get them resolved through my nameserver without creating a manual forward lookup entry for each *parked* domain separatly..
Does anyone know how to resolve "parked" domains automatically on Win2k3 DNS??
I just can't find any answer for this, everything i've found required manual creation of lookup entries..
anyone?
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Jul 6, 2007
I have a vps with dedicated ip's for my domain names.
I read that in order for mails coming from my server not be picked up as spam, i need to add reverse ip entries.
Now i have already added the glue nameserver records on my godaddy control panel,
ns1.mydomain.com -> 10.20.30.40
ns2.mydomain.com -> 10.20.30.41
But do i need to speak to the datacenter to add the reverse dns entries for my domain on their nameservers? What about if i host my nameservers offsite, but then have my webserver/mailserver etc inside the datacenter? Would i need to request the datacenter where the nameservers are hosted to add the reverse ip entries for the domain, and then the request the same from the datacenter for my web/mail servers to add the reverse entries?
Is it really required?
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Aug 14, 2008
I've been having some DNS problems with one of my domains for quite some time now. The domain does not always resolve - some go days without being able to access the site.
I ran a simple BASH script to show what I mean. I replaced my domain with "mysite.net" and the IP with "xx.xx.xxx.xxx".
# for i in `seq 1 15`; do host mysite.net; done
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Host mysite.net not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
mysite.net has address xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mysite.net mail is handled by 0 mysite.net.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem? I have gone over the DNS records countless times and see no problems. The site is hosted on my own dedicated server.
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May 2, 2009
How do I change park domain to the main domain and vice versa for the main domain?
I have cpanel, centos, whm. Wondering if this will effect down time and such?
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Mar 14, 2008
I have domain1.com as the main domain that I am using with cpanel and domain2.com as an addon domain that points to a different directory.
I want to move domain1.com to another server and I would like to know if I can make domain2.com the main one
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Oct 24, 2008
what are the differences?
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Feb 4, 2008
Okay guys, a quick question for all the gurus out there. I'll admit I'm a bit embarassed posting such an easy question, but give a guy a break, I've been using managed servers for god knows how long and I've finally decided to take a dive into administration. Everything is firewalled and secured properly, I'm just having trouble getting the ServerAlias to work right.
What happens is I go into my browser and enter in [url]walaa! It works.
Now, when I enter in [url], it does not resolve.
I have checked with "dig" the domain settings and it looks as though all of the nameservers are set up fine, this is an apache problem. I'm running apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 7.10 for all those who are interested.
Here is my etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.com:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# Admin email, Server Name (domain name) and any aliases
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain1.com
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
# Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /home/demo/public_html/domain.com/public
# Custom log file locations
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog /home/demo/public_html/domain.com/logs/error.log
CustomLog /home/demo/public_html/domain.com/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I've been messing with it for about 45 minutes and I'm worn out at ~4:30am and could use a helping hand from the pros.
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Nov 9, 2007
I just when found this domain on google when I was make some search of content of my site
I found domain as a parked domain and work for my site!
so I go to cpanel and parked domain but not found any thing
so what this mean how someone have parked domain for my site and when i go to cpanel noting foudn also when I go to whm and accoubt listed I don’t find that domain?
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Jan 26, 2009
I´ve a domain but haven´t set the DNS servers yet....now I get a free hosting and I wanted to associate the DNS servers to my domain but I don´t know how!!!
It would be great If you could help me...and let me know if you need more info..
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May 18, 2009
I am moving content from old.domain to new.domain
However I am at the same time retaining the old.domain to keep the older links working
I want that the old.domain/link redirect to new.domain/link
Please advice what would be best to do for the old.domain -
1) Domain forwarding
2) Domain parking
or Both the above
(The other thing is that I would like to do 301 redirect - would this happen automatically by activating the above options - or something else has to be done)
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Jul 10, 2009
i have a website and for some strange reason www.domain.com does not work, the browser tims out. but domain.com [no httpd or www] works fine.
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Jun 9, 2008
delving into a new server, a dual opteron w/Centos. Got two questions as I think about setup.
1) 32 bit or 64bit?
2) Regarding host names and server assignemt...I can either assign it as a node to a domain hosted elsewhere in a reseller account, or I can start with a completely unused domain which is currently parked.
Any preference, in an ideal world?
(I have absolutely no preference, but it occurrred to me it may or may not be of consequence, perfomance & IT-wise and generally speaking .. all things being equal, of course.)
Like I said, a newbie. So I'm braced for the if-you-have-to-ask, you-shouldn't-be-in-one" musings for these rather basic boneheaders.
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May 27, 2007
For some reason, for one of my sites, www.domain.com resolves correctly -- however, domain.com resolves to the Cpanel default page.
I've set up this domain the same way I set up my others. Also, I checked the DNS entry and see nothing wrong w/ it. Here's a screenshot of my DNS domain zone file:
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Oct 1, 2007
One of my websites, romeo-help4u.com has this problem. When i type and the address goes to [url]it works fine. But when I go to [url]it doesn't work.
Quote:
Great Success !
Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server
If you can see this page, then the people who manage this server have installed cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) which use the Apache Web server software and the Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) successfully. They now have to add content to this directory and replace this placeholder page, or else point the server at their real content.
ATTENTION!
If you are seeing this page instead of the site you expected, please contact the administrator of the site involved. (Try sending an email to <webmaster@domain>.) Although this site is running cPanel, WebHost Manager, and Apache software it almost certainly has no other connection to cPanel Inc. or the Apache Group. Please do not send mail about this site or its contents to cPanel Inc. or the Apache Group.
About cPanel:
cPanel is a leading provider of software for the webhosting industry. If you would like to learn more about cPanel please visit our website at www.cpanel.net. Please be advised that cPanel Inc. is not a web hosting company, and as such has no control over content found elsewhere on this site.
About Apache HTTP Server:
The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server which powers many of the worlds web sites. The Apache HTTP server is part of the Apache Group's many influential projects. Their efforts have helped shape much the world wide web, and they continue to be a dominating force in the web hosting industry.
I checked the dns through whm and everything looks normal. What did I set up wrong?
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