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Month: March 2012

How to build a Minecraft server on Ubuntu

Posted on March 7, 2012 by cryptk

So, I decided to reboot my Minecraft server mainly because it hadn’t been updated in forever, and there are several new things available in Minecraft with the recent(ish) updates, and I decided that to start nice and super clean, I would just start with a fresh server rebuild.  I am going to be doing this on a virtualized server with 1.5GB of ram (java is a little memory hungry).

If you are looking for a way to set up a nice Minecraft server with some fancy schmancy web functionality, this is the article for you, more info after the break.

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Posted in Linux | 13 Comments

Basic ubuntu server security

Posted on March 7, 2012 by cryptk

So this blog post is going to cover some basic security do’s and don’ts.  The end goal will be to have an Ubuntu powered server that is not only decently secure, but also not so secure that it is a pain to work with.  I will be covering many things that should be done as part of basic security, some general best practices, and I will also hit on one thing that I find to be a HUGE annoyance than many many… many… people do, thinking that it will make their server more secure, when in reality it does next to nothing.  I will be targeting an Ubuntu 11.10 server in this article, but everything that I have in here should work on anything 10.04 LTS and up.  I am mainly going to be focusing on securing SSH logins. Read on after the break

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Posted in Linux Nas-Admin | 2 Comments

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