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More SSH Security Tricks on Media Temple DV 4

Posted on June 15, 2011 by rglover

The following tricks require root access to the DV 4 server. More specifically, each trick requires editing the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. Change the SSH Port SSH is usually on port 22 and attackers know this so they will attack the server … Continue reading →

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SFTP-only Accounts With Media Temple DV 4

Posted on June 15, 2011 by rglover

We all know FTP is borked. It’s insecure and we should all be using SFTP. The problem with SFTP on MT is that when it is set up the ftp user account can still access the server via FTP and … Continue reading →

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Media Temple Fixes Usability Issue

Posted on June 11, 2011 by rglover

Back in March I blogged about a poor experience I had with Media Temple’s sign up form for their DV service. The checkout was unclear about when my credit card was going to be charged and I felt this was … Continue reading →

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Setting Up a Cron Job on Media Temple DV 4

Posted on May 27, 2011 by rglover

I needed to set up a cron job for a client today on a Media Temple DV 4 server. I hadn’t set one up on a DV 4 server before but I figured it would be straightforward like setting one … Continue reading →

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Installing Sphinx on Media Temple DV 4

Posted on April 27, 2011 by rglover

On a recent project a client asked for a search engine. Since their site was a mix of static and dynamic content I decided that using a MySQL full-text index wouldn’t cut it. Also, I wanted to experiment with the … Continue reading →

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Storing Files Above the Web Root on Media Temple DV Redux

Posted on April 15, 2011 by rglover

My earlier post about storing files above the web root on Media Temple was written for their DV 3.X hosting package. MT have since upgraded their service offering to DV 4 and the process for enabling above web root storage … Continue reading →

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Sub-domain changes on Media Temple DV 4

Posted on April 7, 2011 by rglover

Media Temple recently rolled out the fourth version of their DV hosting package and with the new version number comes a new version of Plesk and a change to the way subdomains are handled. In the old days, on DV … Continue reading →

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Media Temple’s Usability Faux Pas

Posted on March 4, 2011 by rglover

Clearly, I’m a fan of Media Temple, but today I was shocked by a piece of bad usability on their site when I was looking into signing up a new client for some DV hosting. The client for this new … Continue reading →

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An Upload Progress Bar with Media Temple DV and APC

Posted on March 2, 2011 by rglover

I had a client that wanted to allow users to upload files up to 100 Megs in size but didn’t want to have any Flash on the page. A 100 Meg upload can take 10 minutes for some users and … Continue reading →

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Exploring Data Encryption with MySQL

Posted on February 5, 2011 by rglover

This post is about securely storing data in a MySQL table. And by secure I mean storing encrypted data. To keep it simple I’m going to use symmetric encryption (i.e. secret key encryption) rather than asymmetric encryption (i.e. public key … Continue reading →

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