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Before starting with the installation and enabling steps of BFD, I would like to add some light on what is BFD?

Basically, BFD also known as Brute Force Detection is a simple SSH script which is used to parse applicable logs to check about the authentication failure. Installing BFD adds your server one more advantage that it will secure your dedicated server from any harmful brute force attempts. It also works in conjuction with APF firewall to manage your level of server protection and similar to most of the linux server tools, can be easily installed and configured. It is one of the most popular tool for all your dedicated server hosting requirements. Make sure the APF firewall is already installed on your server or the BFD won’t work.

Steps to Install BFD on your Dedicated Server:

Step 1 : Login to the root and cd root/downloads (directory where you store your files)

Step 2 : Use the SSH command of wget as shown below:
wget http://www.rfxnetworks.com/downloads/bfd-current.tar.gz

Step 3 : Use the SSH command of tar as shown below:
tar –xvzf bfd-current.tar.gz

Step 4 : Use the SSH command of cd as shown below:
cd bfd-0.7

Step 5 : Run the ./install.sh file. when its completed, it will show you the following message that alerts to you a proper installation:

.: BFD installed
Install path: /usr/local/bfd
Config path: /usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd
Executable path: /usr/local/sbin/bfd

This means your BFD is now succesfully installed. Now, moving to the enabling BFD which will allow you to block brute force attempts.

Steps to Enable BFD on your Dedicated Server:

Step 1 : Edit the config file, which is located at /usr/local/bfd/conf.bfd

Step 2 : Now, enabling “brute force hack attempt alerts”. Simply, find ALERT_USR=“0” and change it to ALERT_USR=“1” which is ensuring that yes, it will alert you whenever there is a brute force hacking attacks.

Step 3 : Where do you want to send those alerts comes next! Find EMAIL_USR=“root” and change that to EMAIL_USR=“emailaddresshere”

Step 4 : Ctrl+X then Y

Step 5 : However, if you are disallowing everyone from accessing your SSH, doesn’t that mean you can’t get in either? Yes, so let’s prevent that. pico –w /usr/local/bfd/ignore.hosts and add your own IP(s). Ctrl+X then Y.

You can run your installed BFD by entering /usr/local/sbin/bfd –s

Now, your Dedicated Server Hosting account will get alerts whenever there is a brute force hacking attacks.

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Many times you see that your computer is responding very slow though you have latest hardware with high configuration. There are chances for getting your computer being affected by virus, torjans, adware or any spyware which got into your system through infected cd’s pen drives, external hardrives etc…your machine can also be infected by some malicious programs such as spyware, adwares which usually crawl to your machine through freeware softwares, application or through game softwares which are freely available on internet. All these malicious program get their place in registry and start creating trouble for your machine,  thud you need to scan your system as often as possible using some reliable antivirus and antispyware tools. Make sure you update them as frequent as possible. Also you need to take care of your registry, as you install anyapplication on your system lot of information gets added to your registry for that specific application. Many times after using some application you uninstall them but its not necessary that such uninstallation will clear related data from registry thus your registry may get filledup with unnecessary data which may affect overall system performance. So its always better to clean your registry with atmost care. Overloaded registry not only causes registry problems, but can also slows down registry access resulting in poor performance of your machine. Thus to get good results you should try to scan and clean your registry on regular basis. You should also take backup of your registry which can be used in case of registry failure.

Harddrive is the most important part of your machine, all data is stored in digital format on this part of your machine. Thus you should take much care of your harddrive and should scan it regularly for virus, as if your harddrive gets affected all your data may also get corrupted and will be lost. You should remove unwanted files from your harddrive as they just eatup your precious space and may affect its performance. If you frequently install and uninstall new applications/programs on your PC, then your hard disk will also get filled up with orphan information left behind when you remove these programs so you need to install only applications which are must for you. Its always suggested to keep your machine free from unwanted rarely used applications.

Following measure should be taken for getting optimal performance of your machine.
*) Always use a registry cleaner tool to remove any orphan entries which may be left behind after you uinstalled any program or application
*) Take care to cleanup your harddrive using some good reliable Disk Cleanup tool which will clean up unwanted data, such as Temporary Internet Files, old program setup files etc…
*) Its always said “ Prevention is better then cure “ this matches perfect for your computer too.
So for better performance and faster system you must take all preventative maintenance steps for keeping your machine free from error and virus.

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A firewall is a secure and trusted hardware/software application which is used to block unwanted logical ports and manage unwanted traffic. In simple words firewall is a barrier to  keep destructive forces away from your server which may be loading your server. A firewall is useful if you don’t want eternal users to access a particular host or service.
it useful to filter packets based on source’s IP address.
Its used securing your data and server from being get hacked.
Its most common use is to prevent denial of service attack, you can prevent certain level of DDOS attacks for your server..

You can consider firewall as a program or a device which can monitor, control all data transfer between any internal network with whole internet, A firewall ensures that all data communication in both directions is accordingly to security rules set.
Firewall technologies are configurable thus you can limit communication by direction, IP address, protocol, ports, or numerous other combination. There can be communication failure if data communication is not as per the rule set for all outgoing and incoming requests.  If you have access to the firewall of you server , you can configure it to enable the ports, protocols, and addresses that may optimize data communication.
As for security reasons you can configure your firewall to allow only TCP traffic which may cause the user to see frequent buffering of clips. User experience of the presentation is compromised; greater latency and startup times affect the time needed to view the clip, and delivery of the clip requires more total bandwidth.

General types of Firewall :

Desktop Firewall :

Allmost all operating system have built-in firewall applications which is responsible for protecting standalone machine, This type of firewall is designed to protect a single desktop computer and is of a great protection mechanism if the network firewall is compromised.

Software Firewall :

As the name suggest it’s a software application which can be installed on a server which is capable of preventing unwanted data communication. Many webmaster don’t prefer software firewall as most secure. This type of firewall is often used as an application firewall which means that the firewall is optimized to protect applications such as web application and email servers. All Software firewalls have built-in complex filters to inspect the content of the network traffic. This type of firewall is usually (but not always) behind hardware firewalls.

Hardware Firewall :

A hardware firewall is a dedicated hardware device which is installed on your system/server. These firewalls consist of network routers with additional firewall capabilities. Usually hardware firewalls are designed to handle heavy network traffic sites. Hardware firewalls are often placed on the perimeter of the network to filter the internet noise and only allow pre-determined traffic into the network.

Many-a-times hardware firewalls are used in conjunction with software firewalls thus hardware firewall filters out the traffic and the software firewall inspects the network traffic thus you get pure traffic and unwanted traffic can be blocked easily. If in case hardware firewalls are bombarded with bogus network traffic her comes the role of hardware firewall they drop this unwanted traffic and will only let in the right traffic for your network/server thus hardware firewall not only protects the software firewall but also allows the software firewall only to inspect proper network traffic thus such hardware and software firewall combination will surely optimizes the network throughput.

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Usually cPanel comes with Linux Hosting whereas you get Plesk as control panel if you opt for Windows dedicated server hosting. Plesk is most popular control panel widely used with Windows dedicated servers hosting plans.
Using Plesk you can manage all your hosting issues such including creating new accounts, mail, managing your account resources easily. Today you can even use Plesk on linux platform hence such compatibility with both platforms will help user if they want to move from one hosting platform to another they won’t endup having a new control panel for managing their new hosting account.

Using Plesk you can easily manage all hosting related issues, you can monitor your bandwidth consumption, diskspace usage, DNS entries, creating new emails and hosting accounts. You can easily protect your images from being hotlink so as to avoid yoru bandwidth being get ’stolen’ by other sites who links to your images/files of your site. If you require to change few PHP setting which are required for your websites to run smoothly then you can do it using your Plesk control panel. for some reason you need to restrict access to certain directories for your site which can be easily done through your Plesk control panel feature. You can also set scheduled task for your websites for automated updates for your site.
You can also manage your databases using Plesk, such as MySQL, MSSQL, MS Access etc…
Managing SSL certificate is also one of the important feature which is provided by Plesk control panel so that you can secure your site and can get trust of your clients.

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