My standard Linux server setup usually consists of a software raid1 with two disks syncing. The problem with traditional raid, both software and hardware raid, is that it is only useful if one of your drives completely dies. If you experience Silent Data Corruption or if your drive goes bad you might end up with… Continue reading Better-, Butter-, B-tree Filesystem (btrfs)
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LXC 2.x Web GUI
LXC is an abbreviation for “Linux Containers“ which is a feature in the linux kernel, it allows you to install multiple Linux installations running on the same kernel. It’s kind of like chroot but much more powerful as it allows for process and network isolation. I’ve seen that there is a fancy web GUI for… Continue reading LXC 2.x Web GUI
Preprocessing with mod_rewrite and PHP
Ever had the need to publish a large set of HTML files, images and javascripts with transparent user management? My first thought was Basic Auth with htpasswd and htgroups, there’s even an SQL extension so this seems like a good solution, right?
Snapshot databases & files
Imagine that the filesystem is book and each entry in the table of contents (TOC) is a reference to a chapter. In the filesystem this “chapter” is referred to as an inode and the TOC entry is called a hard link. you may call it a file ;) Now the cool thing about this is… Continue reading Snapshot databases & files
Useful SQL statements for everyday WordPress administration
Sometimes you just don’t have access to a fancy GUI like phpMyAdmin but you still need to make changes to the WordPress database. This article is about those times.
SMS Gateway using smstools in Debian 9
Plug in your GSM Modem and run dmesg to find your device details.
2-way encryption with AES 256bit (CBC) in PHP
PHP-Class for encryption of text. I use it for safe storage of information in databases.
ObFusk – AES256 encrypted/obfuscated PHP Backdoor
I’ve been cleaning up lots of hacked wordpress sites lately and i thought i’d share my findings and also my attempt to refine this technique with AES-encryption instead of obfuscation