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Installing mod_evasive on cPanel and/or Apache

This guide details how to install mod_evasive on cPanel to help protect against DDOS attacks, brute force attacks  and other irritants.

It uses an internal hash table of IPs and URLs and can temporarily block web requests to anyone requesting a large number of page views, or making many concurrent requests. Properly configured it can help evade DDOS attacks and keep your customers happy.

You can integrate it with iptables and hardware firewalls too if you like.

Enabling mod_deflate/gzip globally on cPanel

There's far too many reasons to mention why you should enable mod_deflate to gzip your content served by Apache. Simply put, it makes it go fast.

You can enable mod_deflate in cPanel really easily with /scripts/easyapache. Easy.

CentOS / cPanel Firewall Setup

I almost like CentOS now. That doesn't mean I can't get used to this daft yum nonsense, but its alright.
I also almost like cPanel too. Its actually quite good when it works, who knows how to fix it when things go wrong? /scripts/fixeverything doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.