Referrer Spam

Referrer spam is traffic from bots that impersonate a referral link. The pseudo traffic is designed to make their domain show up in your site analytics so that you’ll visit the site. Referrer spammers just forge the referrer of a http request to make their site show up in your logs/statistics. More information: http://blog.raventools.com/stop-referrer-spam/

File and Folder Permissions in Linux

In a typical UNIX/LINUX-style file listing, a file will be displayed in the following way: Output: The first character indicates the file type. It can be a regular file (-), directory (d), a symbolic link (l), or other special types of files. The following nine characters represent the file permissions, three triplets of three characters … Read more

Test server download speeds

Server connections speeds are a function of a variety of variables. The server’s connection speed to the Internet, all processes that are simultaneously trying to connect (uploads and downloads share the total speed available), the overall health of the Internet and the connection capability of the off-site computer, which is also limited by the same … Read more