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Install/Update OSSIM/OSSEC agent (AlmaLinux 8.6 or CentOS)

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This is an update to the previous CentOS installation of OSSEC 3.6 ( here https://cheesefather.com/2020/06/install-ossim-ossec-agent-centos-7/), updating it to 3.7. You need one more library installed before OSSEC can update: dnf -y install systemd-develwget https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/archive/3.7.0.tar.gztar xzf 3.7.0.tar.gzcd ossec-hids-3.7.0/./install.sh Or to install from scratch, just change the first command and add the… Continue reading →

VPS Benchmarks: Amazon EC2 and Lightsail, Azure, DigitalOcean, Google, Hostworld, Linode, OVH, UpCloud, VPSServer, VPS.net, Vultr

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I recently needed to have a look at moving some services to a different VPS provider for redundancy so I decided to benchmark my options to compare them. The plan selected was whichever had 16GB of RAM (though Google is 15GB). The selected datacenter was always London (Azure only says… Continue reading →