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How to fix Shellshock bash vulnerability

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On Sep 24, 2014, a GNU Bash vulnerability with name of Shellshock or the “Bash Bug”, was disclosed. the vulnerability allows remote attackers to execut code given certain conditions by passing strings of code following environment variable assignments

You can find more details about the vulnerability on CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169

Check System Vulnerability

On any system that is running bash you may check the ShellShock vulnerability by running the following command :

env VAR='() { :;}; echo Bash is vulnerable' bash -c "echo Bash Test"
“echo Bash is vulnerable” is where the remote attacker can inject malicious commands , if you see the following command your Bash is vulnerable and you need to update it .

Bash is vulnerable
Bash Test

Otherwise , if you’re not seeing “Bash is vulnerable” as output of command ,your version of bash is not vulnerable .

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New datacenter at Los Angeles !

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We’re glad to announce the latest location in Los Angeles , California with code name of LAX3 – as a leading provider of dedicated server, colocation and cloud services we’re always looking to support our customers growing demands and provide better service .

Our new Juniper powered network and adding new private peerings and PCCW let us to reach Asia Pacific more quickly with less hops ! This is great for our customers and we keep trying improve our network for you.

As monitoring flow data I noticed about %25 lower latency to Asia from the new network .

During past months , We have been working so hard to build this infrastructure for your business growth and keep on implementing Automation and features for you.

For more concerns regarding our new facility please send an email to sales@hugeserver.com or call 888-842-8570

Installing Axel on CentOS 6

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2017 Update: This article is outdated and might not be working please see new version here.

Hello,

Is WGET slow for you ? Did you tried increasing TCP Buffer and still not having the results you expect for downloads ? Do you need resume and multi connection functionality ? The solution is Axel

In Windows we have many download manager softwares that let us download with the maximized speed and resume ability but with Linux there are a few based on CLI as the most are with GUI.

Axel Installation :

Here we are going to install Axel and then explain how to use it.

– Debian Based Distro : If you’re on a Debian Based distributions like Ubuntu you can install Axel easily with apt-get .

apt-get install axel

– Redhat Based Distro : Axel is not included in Yum repository by default if you don’t have EPEL / Remo so you need to install it from scratch via source code or use RPMs which is faster and more easy.

rpm -ivh ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/axel-2.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

Command-Line Switches :

You can have a complete list of command lines if you do “man axel” or “axel –help” but here we mention a few of usable command lines for general usages.

--max-speed=x           -s x    Specify maximum speed (bytes per second)
--num-connections=x     -n x    Specify maximum number of connections
--output=f              -o f    Specify local output file
--header=x              -H x    Add header string
--user-agent=x          -U x    Set user agent
--no-proxy              -N      Just don't use any proxy server
--quiet                 -q      Leave stdout alone
--verbose               -v      More status information

Examples :
– Downloads with max number of connections set to 10
axel -n 10 http://cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test

– Downloads at 512,000 Bytes/second (500KB/s) and max 10 connections
axel -s 512000 -n 10 http://cachefly.cachefly.net/200mb.test

Generally you can see about %88 percentage improvement in download speeds with Axel than Wget .

Hope this article was clear and usable for you.

Let me know your opinions in comment.

Thanks.

HugeServer expands to Florida !

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HugeServer Networks, LLC expands dedicated server and colocation service offering to Jacksonville ,Florida (East Cost U.S)

Jacksonville,FL was choosen for it’s advantages in providing lower latency network connectivity in higher performance grade to East Coast US and South America , focused on Brasil and the Caribbean. it’s also offer lower latency to European customers.

Our network at Jacksonville,FL has two diverse rings from Atlanta,GA and Miami,FL which offers incredible network uptime ,reliability and performance.

We have three transit carriers in our Jacksonville location including : TWTelecom , nLayer and Level3 Communications . also our network is Noction IRP Optimized which is a great value . Noction IRP analyze and optimize traffic routes in real-time and decrease latency up to %30 for outbound routes !

The facility is a SSAE16 certified Data Center, the most secured Data center in Florida and it’s protected 24×7 by armed officers.

In addition to Jacksonville,FL HugeServer also offers dedicated server and Colocation services in Los Angeles,CA and Atlanta,GA .

For more information, please contact HugeServer at:

Website: www.hugeserver.com
Phone: 1-888-842-8570
Email: sales@HugeServer.com

HugeServer now offers CloudLinux!

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HugeServer now offers you the latest in virtualization technology called CloudLinux to address common issues that cause instability and downtime when hosting multiple websites on a server.

With this new operating system you can crash proof your servers.

There were always 2 things that made hosting multiple websites on a server a pain.

  • One was leaving vast amounts of idle resources to guard against a single tenant from over-utilizing the shared resources. You always have to prepare for the worst – and leave idle resources sitting and waiting for something that may or may not happen. Very inefficient.
  • The other pain was keeping one website from causing problems and eating up server resources causing it to slow or worse, shutting down the server. Resources can be drained by any number of problems like a traffic spike, a bug in the website code from one tenant or a hacker attack.

Those days are over. Now we offer CloudLinux

CloudLinux uses Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology to isolate resources on the server. It prevents individual websites from using too many resources and slowing down other sites, provides better security, and protects servers from issues that drain resources. The technology provides better management of server populations and improves stability and can allow you to host twice as many accounts on one server. Not only that, CloudLinux is easy to deploy and manage since it is:

  • Based on RedHat EL 5.x /  RedHat EL 6.x and interchangeable with CentOS 5.x  / Centos 6.x which means no learning curve
  • Works with all major control panels including cPanel and Plesk
  • Compatible with major hosting technologies like Ksplice and R1Soft Backup
  • Transparent to both the administrator and end user and requires virtually no overhead

If you want to deliver more stability and better uptime to your customers,order cloudlinux by contacting our sales department.

IPMI Integration!

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Hi everyone,

We’re delighted to announce the latest update of our ubersmith and new features!

last week we were working hard to make sure that all the Supermicro servers are ready to be integrated to our customer panel,now our customers are able to gain access to the KVM Console,SOL Console,Server Temperature,Fans Status,Voltage,etc!

before this event you had to reboot your server in a hard way – that could damage your server sometimes but at the moment the panel find the safest way to rebooting your server.if the server have IPMI (all the new servers have) it will post the reboot request to IPMI instead of power distribution unit (PDU) actually it do a soft reboot.

How to access this ?

just login in into your customer panel and go to “Device Manager” -> “View Devices” then you see your devices list.choose one and then you’re able to manage your server easily(“IP assignments,Bandwidth monitoring,Device information,Monitoring sensors,IPMI information and Reboot control!”).

Feel free to contact our support department if you have any trouble using IPMI or questions regarding using it.

Also it’s good to know the upcoming features,we’re working on RDNS control and a White-label panel for resellers!

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