I have tried using check_http but I get success even if the website is redirected to an error page This can be solved with check_http –expect. Here is the documentation from check_http –help: -e, –expect=STRING Comma-delimited list of strings, at least one of them is expected in the first (status) line of the server response … Read more
This isn’t a question with a hard and fast answer, in fact none of us can tell you when to run your maintenance, just give you a few pointers to finding the answer for yourself. First of all, when you say “maintenance” what do you mean? Are you saying the site will be offline at … Read more
Cache as much as you can. Any pages that are dynamically created should be cached so that users will get a static version. In page components that query the db should also be cached. Try using an external service like Amazon S3 to serve images and multimedia (or have it ready to use if the … Read more
From what I’ve read on other answers, it feels like you’re asking specifically how your ISP is managing to add “blocked.aspx” to the end of your domain. If that’s the case, let’s look at a case study: You have a web server running on http://mysite.mine/, which a public, completely trustworthy DNS resolves to public IP … Read more
It sounds like you’re getting a bit of misleading jargon. The technical definitions for these types of firewalls are: Layer 3 firewalls (i.e. packet filtering firewalls) filter traffic based solely on source/destination IP, port, and protocol. Layer 4 firewalls do the above, plus add the ability to track active network connections, and allow/deny traffic based … Read more
The A-record alias you create has to be the same as the name of the bucket, because virtual hosting of buckets in S3 requires that the Host: header sent by the browser match the bucket name. There’s not really another practical way in which virtual hosting of buckets could be accomplished… the bucket has to … Read more
I love OpenID, and it’s absolutely better than the “traditional” per-site credentials metaphor. I don’t want more credentials to manage, and I don’t want to trust J. Random site to store credentials I provide securely. I think that users will become more comfortable with it as it becomes more commonplace. Hopefully it becomes more commonplace.
The author lists their reasoning, although it’s a bit disjoint. Their primary argument is that it’s easy to accidentally check in a config file, and that config files have varying formats and may be scattered around the system (all three of which are at best mediocre arguments for security related config like auth tokens and … Read more
Lack of IPv6 support on your site will hurt some of your users. According to stats published by Google 20-25% of users currently have IPv6. A large fraction of those users will need to go through some kind of NAT to reach IPv4-only services, which will make connectivity less reliable. The fraction of users without … Read more
I think the user dflaw found it. It’s the software from Genieo. We did some tests and contacted them. All results are published here.