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Over the years I have had to harden a great number of LAMP boxes, I have found some methods work for better than others. I will now share with you all my favorite 10 along with methods to implement them on Debian/Ubuntu.

Marc Ewing is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. He was involved in the 86open project in the mid-90s. Ewing graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. While at CMU, he was known to wear a red hat as he walked between classes. Ewing and co-founder Bob Young named their initial software after the hat, and the name Redhat stuck.

We are currently building a boot server at work so I thought I would share the process with you. I will cover setting up a basic DHCP server and TFTP server along with the configs needed to get them all working in cohorts. I will do this for both debian and centos. The last part of the article will show you how to add more OSes to the server.

Well no matter what you try sometimes things break and inevitably when they do it happens at 3am just as your nodding off. Well in case you were not aware Nagios has a wonderful feature called event handlers. I have a great network I really do but its got a lot of crappy services on it for example CPanel and IIS servers. IIS has a great habit of dying and when it does all it requires is a restart to get it going again on the side of this we also happen to use Cygwin SSHd on our Windows servers, so in this article I am going to focus on getting Nagios to restart IIS for us to get it back to normal. To do this you will obviously need a server running Nagios and one running IIS on Windows with Cygwin SSHd installed.

[The same principle applies to Apache on Linux of course - Sander]