Tag Archives: CentOS 7

How to use the CentOS Plus kernel for CentOS 7 on Xen VPS

Posted on December 11, 2017 by richard

RedHat has dropped the ball on supporting the Xen based virtualisation technologies and due to commercial reasons will not fix their recently introduced kernel bug on Xen PV platforms. So the fix is to switch to the “CentOS Plus” kernel, … Continue reading →

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Installing Fail2Ban on CentOS 7

Posted on December 24, 2016 by richard

Fail2Ban is an important utility on the modern Internet for stopping “port probe” and other repeat intrusion/login attempts on your Internet services. The following describes how to install and initially configure it to monitor & block repeated login failures on … Continue reading →

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