MikeJ

Enemy at the Gates

You can also get the "answer to life the universe and everything".

You Got Served

Reckoning (, The)

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (redundant movie titles for the win)

Serenity

And we have another Duplicate.... tsk tsk!

Please submit a helpdesk ticket. 1.0.10 should have already been available on your server. (sorry for the confusion above. The moderators don't have access to check on the exact versions).

Cars "Did you leave any food in Mongolia?"

Well, to be accurate, wasn't it X-Men: The Last Stand?

With your load only at 1 most of the time, and peaking at 2... your running well within your system's capacity.

Do you have load graphs? Load is more telling than CPU usage. Also, I'm not sure how your graphs are scaled... how you are getting 760% cpu usage and what is max?

If you are running a static only site (such as an image hosting service), bandwidth is what you need more than anything. You don't need quad xeon servers to host static content... your cpu's are probably sitting fairly idle and you are paying a lot of money for cpu power you likely don't need, that could be better spent buying more cheaper servers to spread the bandwidth out. Load balanced server clusters are great... if you have the money. You would probably be better served splitting your content across multiple servers if your application would support that (or you can code it in). Take image hosting as an example again... You could host certain images on server1, another set of images on server2, more on server3, etc.... so while not truly redundant, you could maintain a spreading of the overall bandwidth usage across servers cheaply. This is actually how a lot of the the free image hosting providers do it, and why when you upload a file to them, you'll get a link that's something like img121.somehost.com/....

In the phpBB administration, you have to go to Forum Permissions and for each forum change them from "Public" to "Registered", and that should disallow guest posting. Also, at least within each forum, you can click on "Moderate this forum", and then select all the threads you want to delete (or within a single thread, all the posts you want to delete) and hit delete. If you want to delete multiple posts buried within multiple threads, though, you are probably going to have to do them one by one.

I haven't messed with it that much yet, but I know many here have (we have a lot of mambo installations). But just wanted to drop ya a note here to look at "Joomla", as that's basically replaced Mambo (or is the latest version of mambo depending on how you look at it).

The username you were given upon signup is for your cpanel account. You'll likely want to create an email account in your control panel for normal mail, and then follow the directions Thomas gave to access that email.

I only have around 16 personal ones.

What version of Invision Power Board are you running?

Welcome guy. Sorry I didn't get to your PM yesterday, but yes, as stated above, this is just a spoofed (faked) email coming from someone else's host claiming to be you. Your email hasn't been compromised. There's not much you can do about spoofed emails right now, but most recipient hosts know how to identify spoofed emails and many will discard them automatically.

The short answer is simply only install what you really need. Don't go plugin/mod crazy unless you really need them, they are there to boost your security, or you really understand what they do. If you don't need certain functions turn them off. Also, always keep your software up to date. Many software providers have websites and even mailing lists to notify you of new updates that may contain security fixes... this is probably the biggest key when using popular packages like phpBB, because when exploits are found, hacks for them spread quickly. If you're extra paranoid, you may want to self-install and upgrade the packages instead of always relying on the installers we provide, since it takes a little time after a release for the packages to be setup in the installers due to the testing needed, although those still usually come out pretty quickly. The more involved answer includes things like not allowing uploads, don't make your configurations web editable (like Wordpress you can make many of your files world editable so you can change them in the web interface... don't do that, make your changes through file manager or keep a copy local and ftp them up when you need to change things). Those in general will cover the majority of what you need. Your site is only as secure as the software you run on it.

What happens when you mix Diet Coke and Mentos? http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html

Coke. Pepsi bleh...

As was stated, cPanel is the control panel preinstalled on the servers. All you need to have is a web browser and you are good to go (information on how to access it is provided in the welcome email when you sign up). TCH only provides version 1.2 of IBP as an installable option because that's the last version that was available for free. Newer versions now require a paid license, so we are not allowed to make it available (but you can, as stated, purchase a new version and install it yourself). You can, however, upgrade from 1.2 to the latest, if you purchase a license, and retain all of your posts.

Actually, you should remove the entire install directory to be safe. There are other scripts in there as well you don't want people accessing.

Just keep in mind that if you enable this site wide with the above, you do not want to enable it in individual packages like wordpress, because then the content can potentially be gzip'd twice and actually cause you problems.