Something I am always forgetting how to do and have to Google for each time is how to find your Ubuntu version. Open an ssh terminal and type: cat /etc/lsb-release this will then show: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS”
Tag Archive: web server
Sep
20
20 Tips To Increase WordPress Security
I have recently been blogging about how my web servers have been compromised. I am fairly sure that the attackers gained access to the server via WordPress. I use WordPress as the backbone to 90% of my sites, this being so it is critically important that it is secure. I have therefore been researching methods …
Sep
19
New Web Servers
The last two months have been a real problem for my web hosting. I have blogged here before about how I have been hacked. This last week the server has hacked again and phishing software installed. I was in the process of setting up a new server anyway but this has put the pressure on …
Jan
02
Server Failure
If you have been trying to get to this blog over the last week or so you will have found that it has been down, along with all my other sites. This was due to a hardware failure on my web server, which coming as it did over the Christmas period has been somewhat frustrating. …






