Recent reports raised attention on a botnet spreading around, targeting Mikrotik RouterOS devices and Cloud Routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in HTTP and SMB, as well as password brute-forcing. Read More
We were happy to join as a hosting partner at the most inspiring hackathon, organized by students.
Debian 9.4 was publicly realeased. and a few days it was made available for Cloud Servers. The new version focuses primarily on security improvements and fixes.
The free certificate authority Let’s Encrypt announced the long expected wildcard certificate support.
We are proud to take part in one specifically awesome and inspiring event this week. Hack30xTUES is a school hackathon organized by the students from the Technological School Electronic Systems in Sofia, but this years fourth edition is even a bigger event. Sharing the year of the 30th anniversary of the school and promoting three equally interesting topics for the projects, Hack30XTUES is an extraordinary gathering of the best young IT talents.
This years fourth edition of HackTUES is just a few days away. The event gathers more than 200 students in four days of variety of technologies, awesome ideas, brilliant solutions and tons of fun. Hack 30xTUES will be open on March 15th and will immerse you in an astonishing fusion between the “Old school – New technologies” as the theme says. On Sunday, 45 teams of students from the Technological School Electronic systems in Sofia, will present their vision on the past, present and most of all the future of technologies.
CloudBalkan is proud to join again as hosting partner on the event, and this year will provide a few bits, byte or maybe terabytes of support for the teams.
For years SSH has prooven to be extremly useful and flexible protocol.
The forwarding option in SSH is another example for its versatility. Using it you can easily forward a local TCP port to another on the remote machine. Read More
This guide will help you setup a .htaccess file that restricts access to a page only to specific IP addresses. You might find that useful if you want to protect you web platform adminstration panel or some web tools like phpMyAdmin. Read More
If you need to quickly replace a string in a file from Linux command line, ‘sed’ will quickly become one of your best friends.
To replace the string “cloud” with “balkan” in the file demo1.txt
sed -i -- 's/cloud/balkan/g' demo1.txt
You can aswell replace string in multiple files by using any file masks:
sed -i -- 's/cloud/balkan/g' * sed -i -- 's/cloud/balkan/g' *.txt
Mikrotik Cloud Hosted Router is now available on CloudBalkan. Powerful cloud based network appliances can now be used for routing and switching, cloud based network load balancing, firewalls and plenty of other network applications.
It’s time for a little fun. In this tutorial we will provide you the instructions on how to run a Counter Strike Source server on a Ubuntu 16.04 Cloud Server.
For this tutorial we are using the Cloud Server 2GB , although smaller instances should handle one game server absolutely fine aswell.
The choice of a servers distribution is more often driven by experience and background with one, but anyway taking a look at what were the most frequently used distros for the past year is always interesting and useful.