Christos Pontikis - pontikis.net

Entrepreneur | Full-stack developer | Founder of MediSign Ltd. I have over 15 years of professional experience designing and developing web applications. I am also very experienced in managing (web) projects.

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Install and Config Psad in Debian 7 Wheezy

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:May 18, 2013
Post category:Network Security
Reading time:8 mins read

Psad (Port Scan Attack Detector) is an intrusion prevention software, written in Perl by Michael Rash. Psad makes use of iptables and ip6tables log messages to detect, alert, and (optionally)…

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Install and Config Fail2Ban in Debian 7 Wheezy

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:May 17, 2013
Post category:Network Security
Reading time:17 mins read

Fail2Ban (authentication failure monitor) is an intrusion prevention software, written in Python. Fail2Ban analyzes various services log files (ssh, apache, postfix etc) and if it detects possible attacks (mainly Brute-force…

Debian gnu/linux 7 Wheezy

Debian 7 Wheezy Dedicated Web Server Setup Step by Step

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:May 16, 2013
Post category:Linux Administration
Reading time:33 mins read

Debian 7.0 Wheezy has been officially released on May 5, 2013. Wheezy is powered by Linux kernel 3.2 and multiarch support. Concerning LAMP software, Apache 2.2.22 MySQL 5.5.30 and PHP…

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Memcached Installation and Configuration with PHP on Debian server

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:April 28, 2013
Post category:Linux Administration
Reading time:15 mins read

In a previous post I wrote about Memcached installation on Archlinux workstation. This is a similar post for Debian server machine. I will describe Memcached installation and configuration on a)…

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Memcached Installation and Configuration with PHP on Arch Linux

Post author:Christos Pontikis
Post published:April 26, 2013
Post category:Linux Administration
Reading time:11 mins read

Memcached is "a free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load".…