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Playing with snort and pfSense

Playing with snort and pfSense

18. May, 2010 • Categories: Technical Articles • by Uncorrupted-Michael

We’ve been having a blast with some new intel atom based pfSense firewalls here in the office. The d510 boards perform amazingly well, even with a slew of snort rules loaded up.
We just replaced one of our Juniper SRX series firewalls with one of these little pfSense boxes and wouldn’t you know one of [...]

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Nginx Hotlink Protection

Nginx Hotlink Protection

19. Feb, 2010 • Categories: Technical Articles • by Uncorrupted-Michael

A few clients have recently complained about other blogs linking to their images and leeching off their bandwidth. Bandwidth is expensive and should be protected.
Here’s a working solution:

location ~ \.(jpg|jpeg|bmp|jif|bmp|gif|png)$ {
root /path/to/public_html/;
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WHMCS Rewrite Rules for Nginx

06. Oct, 2009 • Categories: Technical Articles • by Uncorrupted-Michael

WHMCS is a very popular client management package with a slew of billing, support, and product management options. We use it here and have just recently moved our WHMCS site over to an nginx powered web server. The rewrites have all been worked out and since there’s nothing to be found on the [...]

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Move Wordpress With No Down Time

17. Mar, 2009 • Categories: Technical Articles • by Uncorrupted-Michael

The goal here is to transfer your WordPress website off your current host’s server and (hopefully) onto one of the Uncorrupted Servers. There are other ways of performing the migration, but I’ve found this to be the easiest. This guide assumes you have a basic understanding of terminal commands and that you can find your public_html directory on your current host’s server.

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