Hey, I'm Northon!

a DevSecOps engineer from Brazil 🖖

Tuning/Optimizing Apache on cPanel Servers

cPanel configures Apache to work in the most stable way possible, but with a few tricks the default settings can be improved in order to gain performance and have a better resource usage. Before we start to optimize Apache, you should stop using it to…

DDoS Protected VPS Providers for Reverse SSH Proxy

Sometime ago I read a decent review about "DDoS Protected VPS Providers" on LowEndTalk. It's indeed accurate based on my experience so far. Currently I trust 3 providers for my SSH/SFTP/MySQL tunnels: LunaNode from Montreal (OVH), RamNode from Atlanta (Staminus) and QuadraNet from Miami (In-House). A…

Your own VPN in minutes: easy, safe & cheap

Everytime I had to setup a VPN, I used to do manually, with guides like these: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-centos-6 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-centos-7 To make it easier, I was going to write a shell script to automate. However, before I did any movement, I went to Google to find if…

Remove Addon/Parked Domain Manually on cPanel

Recently I had a problem with a customer trying to remove a addon domain on cPanel. Every time he tries to remove, he got different error messages, like “subdomain ‘shop.example.com’ does not exist for user ‘client’". Since cPanel couldn’t do it by itself, I went…