Month: August 2007

Configuring Linux Plesk to drop external MySQL connections

europheus August 20, 2007July 28, 2009 2

By default, your MySQL server can be wide open to the internet accepting connections from everyone. With some brute force and bad passwords on your part, there will be a hack party in your database. The best thing to do is to block all external connections to your MySQL port (3306) and allow only internal …

Running Java 6 on a Linux VPS

europheus August 16, 2007August 16, 2007 5

Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine What? Not enough RAM to run Java? Having a VPS (virtual private server) means that you are sharing RAM with other VPS owners on the server. The actual hardware of the server may have 4GB RAM for example, however your …