It is a record of how I build an Nginx with Brotli compression and TLS 1.3 support. I use it on my Linode VPS. It is a Nanon type of VPS at Fremont, CA, USA. 1GB RAM, 25GB storage, 1 CPU. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was installed on it. Step 0, Build the system
This post is an online archive of the page (http://www.michaelbrumm.com/spfwindowsdns/) How to Add an SPF Record in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 DNS Step 1: Select and open the domain in which you wish to add the SPF record. Right-click in the record list and select “Other New Records…” from the menu. Step 2: Select the Text
540 million data records of Facebook users were compromised after third-party apps and sites stored the data on unsecured servers. The leaked information included comments, likes, reactions, account names, and FB IDs, and some email addresses. The app called At The Pool even stored passwords of 22,000 users in plaintext. Security expert tips: If you
I have some Virtualbox virtual machine on my desktop. Now I have Proxmox VE 5.3-8 installed on a separate machine. So I would like to move the VM to Proxmox. Let me list the existing installation. My Desktop, Windows 10 Pro version 1809. Virtualbox 6.0.4 r128413 Guest VM inside of Virtualbox is Ubuntu 18.04 with
I check the Nginx error log file regularly. I noticed that a lot of attempted accesses to favicon.ico coming from mainland China. They come from different IP addresses and with different User Agents. Each of these IPs is only doing this, sometimes repeatedly. They are just waste my server’s time and CPU. How to stop
I have a VPS on DigitalOcean. Web server is Nginx web server. I checked the web server log files, including an access log and error log. The error log always gives information about the strange activities from some IP address. You can see the URL requested is so strange. Actually, I banned these IP address
I use a Nginx as the reverse proxy. Here is the scenario. The original server is Server A. The reverse proxy is Server B. Web users are browser the website through Server B. The web log of Server A just received the IP address of server B. All users are shared one remote address. It
It is a new about Google emaill APPs. Google has two email APPs, Inbox and Gmail. Just an hour ago, Google announced that Inbox by Gmail will be discontinue at the end of March 2019. vi In the post “Inbox is signing off. Find your favorite features in the new Gmail”, Google said so. I
After I change my old smartphone to LG Q6, I would like to transfer all apps to it. I used Google Authenticator for a bunch of websites as the Two-factor Authentication. I just found Google Authenticator cannot move all these accounts to my new phone. To do the transferring, I have to manually re-add it
I tried a IPv6 only VPS. It has no IP v4 address. It is always error connection when I tried to use an IP v6 to connect it. Here is some new knowledge for me. Use a pair around the IPv6 address when using it in the Browser address . The correct format is:
