Posts Tagged ‘Debian’
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 by Mario Duarte November 20th, 2012 7:31 amMario Duarte
Our previous security articles from GoGrid discussed 5 steps to enhance your security on Microsoft Windows and how to tighten up Windows security. But what about making your Linux server security a bit more robust?
Overview
Security studies strongly demonstrate that most systems will be attacked within 5 hours after becoming publicly accessible—in some cases, in less than 2 hours. The sources of the attacks are often unsuspecting users whose systems have been compromised by malware and are in turn being used to attack and infect other systems. The majority of attacks target two common threats:
- A combination of commonly used system accounts (e.g., the root account) with weak, dictionary-based passwords
- Systems that are missing critical or high-security vulnerabilities
Solution
This article provides GoGrid’s security recommendations for Cloud Servers running Linux. Perform these 4 steps in sequential order immediately after provisioning new GoGrid Cloud Servers to maintain the security (confidentiality + integrity + availability) of your system. (more…) «Security Basics: 4 Steps to Tighten up Linux Security»
Tags: Anti-virus, apt-get, AV, best practice, CentOS, Debian, How To, Linux, Patch, root, Security, ssh, Unix, yum
Posted in Cloud Server, General, GoGrid, How To, Linux, Public Cloud, Security | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 15th, 2011 by Michael Sheehan 
September 15th, 2011 3:06 pmMichael Sheehan
Yesterday we release several new and updated base GoGrid cloud server images as part of our regular Operating System refreshes.
Below is a quick lists of the New, Updated and End of Life-d base images.
New Major Versions
- What’s new in CentOS 6 (RHEL technical details): http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/details/
- This version of CentOS is not subject to the “time drift” issue
- These machines now run in PV (paravirtualization) mode
Debian 6
(more…) «New & Updated CentOS, Debian, RHEL and Windows Base Cloud Server Images Released on GoGrid»
Tags: CentOS, cloud, Cloud infrastructure, Debian, GoGrid, Linux, Microsoft, Operating System, OS, R2, RHEL, SQL Server, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
Posted in Cloud Server, General, GoGrid, Images, Linux, Operating System, Release, Windows | No Comments »
Monday, August 1st, 2011 by Michael Sheehan August 1st, 2011 12:38 pmMichael Sheehan
When most people hear the phrase “operating system in the cloud” they usually think of a really cool client-side, Web-based desktop like EyeOS or CloudMe or even Chromium OS. Perhaps that is the future of client operating systems, but when cloud infrastructure providers talk about operating systems, they are making reference to which OS your cloud infrastructure will run on. And, it’s not always limited to just one in many cases.
At GoGrid, we provide a variety of operating systems including:
- Windows Server
- Ubuntu
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Debian
- CentOS
Operating systems in the cloud are very important because they are what your applications and infrastructure are built upon. Whether you’re using the cloud to deploy test & development environments, act as your data center or run your company’s business critical applications, the operating system plays a vital role in cloud infrastructure.
Most IT professionals are pretty passionate about what operating system they prefer. For instance, search for “Windows vs. Linux” on Google – over 109 million results have some sort of opinion on the topic. But, since actions speak louder than words, we wanted to determine which operating system was used more by the IT industry.
(more…) «GoGrid Cloud Survey Report – Operating Systems in the Cloud (Part 6)»
Tags: CentOS, Debian, GoGrid, IaaS, infrastructure, infrastructure as a service, Linux, Operating System, OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Results, server, survey, Ubuntu, Windows, Windows Server
Posted in Cloud Computing, General, GoGrid, Images, Industry, Linux, Operating System, Public Cloud, Windows | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 11th, 2011 by Michael Sheehan March 11th, 2011 6:00 amMichael Sheehan
Part of a new Engineering and Product initiative at GoGrid is the fact that we will be providing more frequent updates to our Cloud Infrastructure Services. These updates may take the form of new or updated features, bug fixes, or back-end enhancements. Our goal is to provide these updates and feature releases on a monthly basis (more information on our new agile software engineering process will be coming) so that we can answer customer requests and needs on an extremely timely basis as well as introduce revolutionary services to the Cloud Infrastructure marketplace.
Today (March 11, 2011), we released our March 2011 update (code name “Long Beach”). The major features and updates are listed below:
- Enhancement to the MyGSI Feature
- Usage Report
- Billing Improvements
- Ubuntu 10.04 Cloud Server Support
- Debian 5.0 Cloud Server Support
Please read on for details on each of the items listed above.
MyGSI Updates
About a year ago, we introduced a new feature called MyGSIs – customized GoGrid Server Images – and how easy it was to create and save a Server Image. Server images are helpful for horizontal scaling, re-imaging of servers, disaster recovery, or setting up failover environments. Until this update, we had a pretty straight forward 3-step process: 1) create a Sandbox Image, 2) configure your server, prep it, and run scripts, and 3) save the server to cloud storage.
(more…) «GoGrid Update: Save Server Image Enhancements (MyGSI), New Usage Report, Billing Improvements, Ubuntu & Debian Support»
Tags: billing, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Debian, Features, GoGrid, MyGSI, Operating System, Report, Ubuntu, Update, Usage
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, How To, Images, Linux, Operating System, Public Cloud, Release | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan August 4th, 2010 7:30 amMichael Sheehan
Right on the heels of the GoGrid 3.0 release, we needed to be sure that we didn’t slow our momentum down. To that end, this week we have released some new features to GoGrid which are important to highlight.
We have 3 exciting features, specifically:
- East Coast Load Balancers
- New GoGrid Dedicated Server Images
- 16 GB RAM on GoGrid Cloud Servers
East Coast Load Balancers
As we work towards obtaining full feature parity within a few months in our East Coast Datacenter launch, one of the first items that we enabled was that of Load Balancing. Just like in the West Coast Datacenter, Load Balancing on the East Coast remains FREE. With the rollout of Load Balancers in the East Coast, all GoGrid users now have the ability to deploy 6 total Load Balancers for free, 3 in each Datacenter.
(more…) «Details on the Recent Upgrades to GoGrid: East Coast Load Balancers, New Dedicated Server Images & 16 GB RAM Images»
Tags: 16 GB, CentOS, Cores, Debian, Features, Fedora, GoGrid, GoGrid 3.0, Linux, Load Balancer, RAM, Release, RHEL, SQL Server, Ubuntu, Update, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Cloudcenter, Datacenter, Dedicated Server, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, Hosting, Images, Linux, Load Balancer, Release, Windows | No Comments »
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