21Mar 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

cPanel announces PHP 4 End of Life

News
cPanel, the leading web hosting control panel for Linux has announced end of life for PHP 4 support within cPanel. cPanel to End Support for PHP 4   cPanel announces that EasyApache will no longer support PHP 4 beginning May, 2012.   PHP 4 has not been actively developed, or supported by the PHP developers, for several years. Many CVEs reported against newer versions of PHP are also applicable in version 4, but remain unaddressed by the PHP developers.   EasyApache will soon warn administrators that PHP 4 has reached End of Life when PHP 4 is selected. As early as EasyApache 3.12, PHP 4 will be removed from EasyApache. For an indeterminate period PHP 4 will be available as a Custom Option Module on http://easyapache.cpanel.net. This Custom Option Module…
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20Mar 2012 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Dust Storm in Lahore

Personal
Today, its really hard to breath in Lahore because I see the second dust storm in my life span in Lahore. Its not as bad as in Karachi but still, its hard to breath. Last year on 25th May, 2011, there was also a Sand storm (and since I saw/felt it for the first time) it was a difficult experience [caption id="attachment_1007" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Dust storm in Lahore"][/caption]
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19Jan 2012 by Asim Zeeshan 5 Comments

LowEndBox.com’s golden era ends!

Personal
Today, I was sad to read the post on my favourite blog lowendbox.com (LEB). I discovered LEB a few years ago and it has helped me learn a lot and try out many different VPS services all under $7/mo. But finally the blog anonymous blog author of LEB whom we call Low End Admin (LEA) has announced that this blog is taking a lot of his time hence he may be selling or giving it to someone who can run it at least as good as LEA himself. Its a sad day Indeed!
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11Jan 2012 by Asim Zeeshan 17 Comments

Bought another irresistible dedicated server offer

Experiments, Personal
I just bought another irresistible dedicated server offer from a reputable provider (although I have no use of it at the moment). The details of the mouth watering deal is Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz 4GB DDR3 Memory 500 Gig Sata hard drive 100mbit network 5 IPs all that for just $49/mo I got the hard upgraded to a 1TB Sata3 and memory (RAM) upgraded to a whopping 12GB (some one you may be surprised to see ONLY 12GB but for me, this is the heaviest system I have rented to date). I am planning to keep it running even though I have no use for it at the moment.   Update: Classic IO test [code] [root@kvm ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest 16384+0…
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05Jan 2012 by Asim Zeeshan 5 Comments

iWeb.com review

Reviews
I started out with iweb.com yearly ago (approx 5-6 years ago). I upgraded servers, changed servers completely but managed 2 servers during my time. If someone asks me to rank them, here is my ranking/review of iweb.com (more…)
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