A firewall prevents all network access to your server (with certain exceptions that you will specify). You can configure a firewall on your VPS using the Webmin control panel.  The iptables command will actually implement the firewall rules. Before you decide ...

Many VPS customers are surprised at the number of failed SSH login attempts to their servers. By just having a listening server on the Internet, you will get dozens or even hundreds of brute force login attempts each day. Most ...

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a common way of moving files between computers.  By default your RimuHosting server will not have FTP enabled. Do you really need to run FTP? For example, if you are going to be the ...

We recommend our customers to use SCP/SFTP when they need to transfer files from/to their VPS accounts. But sometimes it is necessary to allow certain users to have FTP access. You need to install the FTP server. You can do this ...

Before you start, make sure you have installed ispmanager correctly so that the email is functional. If you have installed squirrelmail already this is not a problem. Simply telnet/ssh into your server and remove ...

On a linux machine, PHP uses a command line program called sendmail to send mail (funnily enough). What sendmail does is put the mail in the outgoing queue of the server MTA (mail transfer agent). Sidenote: the granddaddy of unix MTAs ...

Remote Access to computers is nothing new and most of you are aware of it. But how many of you have tried remotely accessing a PC at your home or office? I guess only a few of you. ...