http://www.howtoforge.com – How To Set Up Multi-Level/Master-Slave Umbrella Network Monitoring This guide provides an overview on how to set up umbrella monitoring to monitor applications and devices in distributed networks. Multiple instances of monitoring systems (in this example Verax NMS express) can be configured in a tree-like, master-slave, federated umbrella monitoring structure. (HowTos)

http://www.howtoforge.com – Using PHP5-FPM With Apache2 On CentOS 6.3 This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. (HowTos)

http://blog.linuxmint.com – Donations & Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $1000 (6th donation), Ian M. aka “bcc4foss“ $150, Bernard S. $100 (2nd donation), Nicholas H. $100, Yves L. aka “amadeus128″ $71.85, Marie M. $59.87, Devaraj D. (Distributions)

http://www.howtoforge.com – nginx: How To Block Exploits, SQL Injections, File Injections, Spam, User Agents, Etc. This short article explains how you can block the most common exploits, SQL injections, file injections, spam and user agents used by hackers and bandwidth hoggers from your nginx vhosts with some simple configuration directives. (HowTos)

http://www.howtoforge.com – Using Rex To Automate Your Datacentre In my day to day work I come across a lot of tasks that I actually "hate" to be honest. Most of these tasks consist of things that are repetitive and take up a lot of time. A co-worker of mine once told me, "if you have to do a task more than once, automate it!". This is one piece of advice that intrigued me. (HowTos)