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This is just a brief message to let you know that some of the default fantastico applications have been updated today. It is strongly recommended that you always keep your scripts up to date.

Here are the updates:

- 4Images Gallery: 1.7.4 -> 1.7.6
- Crafty Syntax Live Help: 2.14.4 -> 2.14.6
- Drupal: 5.3 -> 6.1
- Joomla: 1.0.14 -> 1.0.15
- Mambo Open Source: 4.6.2 -> 4.6.3
- Nucleus: 3.24 -> 3.32
- PHPauction: 2.1 -> 3.2
- phpAdsNew: 2.0.9-pr1 -> 2.0.11-pr1
- TikiWiki: 1.9.8.3 -> 1.9.10.1

With the latest cPanel upgrade now complete and running smooth, we’ve decided to go ahead and add support for Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

What exactly is Ruby on Rails?
Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity, allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration. One of Rails’ guiding principles is “Don’t Repeat Yourself”.

We have also installed the needed gems for the proper functioning of RUBY, these are listed below:

Successfully installed rails-1.2.3

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (1.3.3)

Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack (1.13.3)

Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice (1.2.3)

Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord (1.15.3)

Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.4.2)

Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

fcgi (0.8.7)

FastCGI library for Ruby.

mysql (2.7)

MySQL/Ruby provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the MySQL C API provides for C programs.

rails (1.2.3)

Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer, and ORM.

rake (0.7.3)

Ruby based make-like utility.

sources (0.0.1)

This package provides download sources for remote gem installation

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As always, HostedFX pushes forward and constantly improves its services for the benefit of our clients, I hope you enjoy this latest addition.

Over the past 24 hours we have added some extra safety precautions to our server in order to secure the protection and integrity of all our clients and their websites. In addition, we have made a few tweaks to ensure the performance of our server is as high as possible. The measures taken are as follows.

- CHKRootKit - a simple program that detects and hacker software and notifies us if any has been detected via email.
- RootKit Hunter - scanning tool to ensure our system does not have any backdoors or exploits.
- Securing and Upgrading of SSH Server - increases security during ssh connections failures and automatically blocks the attackers ip in the firewall.
- System Integrity Monitor - 24×7 Internal Monitor that checks all services and restarts them if they are down.
- SPRI - changes the priority of different processes in accordance to level of importance, hence increasing server performance.
- Secure and Optimize Apache (HTTP)- tweaks apache to perform better, and prevent unnecessary information from being easily seen. Also installed mod_security to restrict web attacks.
- MySQL optimization - increases performance of MySQL.
- host.conf hardenening - prevent dns lookup poisoning & spoofing protection.
- nsswitch.conf modification - secure and optimize DNS lookups.
- sysctl.conf hardening - helps prevent TCP/IP stack from syn-flood attacks and other network abuses.
- Shell Fork Bomb/Memory Hog Protection - prevents a user logged into a shell from consuming all the resources on the server.
- TMP Directory hardening ( /tmp, /var/tmp, /dev/shm) - helps prevents execution of malicious scripts.

As always, HostedFX is always striving to provide the best service possible for you.