This will be a 2 part guide and this is part 1

What are the common mistakes that you make!

ever got your wordpress blog hacked? Well even my blog got hacked once Take a look at the image on the top. From this simple how to guide, Im going to explain some little facts about the common mistakes that you make against security and if you got hacked some tips that you can use to remove the malicious stuff from your blog and get back to running condition.

• Most of us tend to CHMOD ( setting permissions about the usage of files and folders) our files and directories to 777 maybe on the start and forgets or don’t even consider to set back the permissions to something secure like 644

Thats what happens most of the time. Some scripts even wordpress requires some directories such as upload directories to be set 777 permissions recursively in order to store the uploads and temporary files.  Newbies who setting up their blogs sometimes gets mad on the directories and set whole http directory and files to 777.  Yes some of you might laugh at this but this happens. And even I did the same thing on the beginning. But fortunately wordpress has been evolved these days and its smart enough to tell you what are the permissions required and its able to check if the permissions are correct on the folders while installation. So you might be lucky these days but even today some additional plugins require the file permissions specially to be set on some folders and you should be careful while doing those things.

• Never set 777 permissions on the main http folder. If your plugin require that, forget about the plugin!

• Always use trusted web hosts.

No matter how secure your blog is there can be loopholes on your hosting.  Yes you might be short with money but still there are plenty of good web hosts on the world which you can get bang for the buck. Forget about the web host advertised on your local discussion forum. Starting a web host is like nothing these days. Anyone with a dedicated server or VPS and cpanel license, whmcs license can start a web host. But good security wont be there most of the time. So you need to be careful. Chances of leaking your data to others is very high.

• Dont use your mysql database user password for something else such as your email accounts or anything.

You might be wondering why is that, its not because of someone stealing your email account password and then accessing your sql database. But I meant the reverse process. Think if your db user name and password got exposed due to a web server hack or something. Hacker will probably try the credentials for login to your email account or other online accounts. So have something special and unique as your mysql user password and never use it on anything!

• Using your web host provided backup system? Good! but take your time and backup off site too!

Its not always the index.php exploit. Sometimes wordpress core gets attacked due to weak-spots on the core itself and some brutal things happened with wordpress not far ago. So backups are most important. If your database got exploited and there is no information yet about how to remove the exploit and get back running you may really enjoy if you have backups in hand. Waiting for a statement and patch from wordpress team or something is not the best way specially if you are running a busy site. So if you have backups its like cheese!

So listen we know most web hosts give you the option to backup data on their control panel so the restoration will be easy and such. But dont depend on it. Like on the previous case if the whole server gets hacked or something. You might lose the backups and will left with nothing but sorrow! So be prepared and take backups redundantly!

• There is cool plugin on for wordpress I’m going for it! That’s not a problem. But view the ratings and read the forums on wordpress before installing a life changer plugins.

This is crucial. WordPress plugins emerge day by day and you need to be careful. The more plugin gets complex and interesting the better the chance of modifying the wordpress core heavily. So those plugins can really maybe weak spots later because of the modifications done to the wordpress core thus leaving possible exploit options. The best way to get around this problem is downloading your plugins from the wordpress.org plugin repository itself and read the ratings and corresponding forum ( there is separate forum for each plugin which can be found on plugin page) about the user experience! Trust me plugins are evil!

• Always update the plugins and wordpress core to latest

See Im using LNMP on my VPS which runs this blog and Im not running FTP service on it. So wordpress updates on the control panel and the easy one click plugin updates doesnt work because they all require FTP to do the trick.

So the get around is following the traditional way of upgrading stuff which  we did on wordpress 2.x.x That is downloading updates and overwriting files . What Im going to tell you is that always keep up to date on the plugins and wordpress core. See my way is very hard and sooo 2008 but I still do that when upgrade comes out and trust me I see upgrades very often with my 25 plugins.

• Read wordpress.org about the latest news and new releases.

Do this at least twice a week. Sometimes you may not even know when a large scale attack or loop hole on wordpress gets exposed to hackers and they are doing mass destruction. WordPress.org maintains a news blog here which provide news about new wordpress releases and most importantly security releases and flows. Don’t think wordpress core itself is very secure and you don’t have to look in to that, WordPress core loop holes has been exploited many times before. So be prepared!

Continued to Part 2

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I have published article about my modified nginx auto installer about little over a year ago. Which can be found here. Which got somewhat famous and counted over 1000 installs. The framework which I was used was came from a chinese developer called licess and the framework now has been evolved a lot and now we can count it as fully fledged auto installer.  It now includes latest nginx version ( Which lacked at the time which I modified the script to include the latest and greatest) . And also now it includes separately tweaked installers for debian, centos, and ubuntu, which I had on my modified installer since day one   So its nice to see that he baked 2 options which my modified installer had since day one.

This installer is extremely useful but its not popular in the international community since its written in Chines and no support provided on English.  So with this post I just wanted to introduce that great tool to you guys and edit the original source code little bit to remove the time zone rewrites.

What I have removed

•  Original installer rewrites the time zone to China. I have removed that so your original time zone will remain on the server.

All the credits must go to Licess at www.lnmp.org and you can donate him there. I take no credit for this and I’m just listing the installer here and I just wanted to provide some support for it in English, thats the moral of the post!

What does the installer include

• Nginx 1.0.10
• PHP 5.2.17
• Mysql 5.1.60
• PHPMyAdmin
• Eaccelerator (optional 1 click install)
• VsFTPd, PureFTPd (Optional 1 click install)
• PHP Suhousin Patch
• Memcached (optional)
• Zend Optimizer

install Instructions-

You can use debian/ubuntu/centos 32bit or 64bit. So login via SSH and issue these commands (you must be root user to install LNMP )-

1. Download the installer package-

wget -c http://www.ruchirablog.com/lnmp0.8-full.tar.gz

2. Decompress the install package-.

tar zxvf lnmp0.8-full.tar.gz

3. Go to install directory-

cd lnmp0.8-full /

4.  Start installing-

For ubuntu  – sh ubuntu.sh

For Centos  – sh centos.sh

For Debian – sh debian.sh

It will ask some questions like your domain name , mysql root password ( Use your root password if you are newbie) just answer to them promptly.

It will take at least 30 minutes to fully install and then you will see a massage saying install completed. So then you can try navigating to your ip address to see it working.

After installation -

• PHPMyAdmin will be located on http://yourip/phpmyadmin
• Navigate to your url or ip and it will display a test page

1, install eAccelerator, execute the following command.  / eaccelerator.sh , follow the prompts to select the version, press Enter, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

2, the installation of ionCube, execute the following command  / ionCube.sh Enter to confirm, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

3, the installation imageMagick, execute the following command  / imageMagick.sh Enter to confirm, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

4, install memcached, execute the following command  / memcached.sh Enter to confirm, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

And a advantage of  the new installer is you can upgrade nginx or php with just one shell command.

• To upgrade the nginx  execute the following command:. / upgrade_nginx.sh It will prompt a thing which you need to enter the nginx version number. Its simply asking which version that you want to upgrade. So head over to http://nginx.org/en/download.html and find whats the newest nginx version and enter the number correctly on the shell prompt. For ex- 1.0.10 and press enter. its just easy!

• PHP  upgrade, execute the following command:. / upgrade_php.sh prompted, enter your php version number, such as 5.3.6.

You can manage the LNMP by issuing these commands-

/root/lnmp {start | stop | reload | restart | kill | status}

• For example if you want to restart lnmp issue /root/lnmp restart

LNMP files will be located on
mysql: /usr/local/mysql
php: /usr/local/php
nginx: /usr/local/nginx
Site Directory: /home/wwwroot

How to add more domains (Virtual hosts) for this setup?

You can add more domains to your setup with easy steps. You just need to open your SSH client and type

./vhost.sh

And it will ask you which domain name to add also if you are setting up new domain for wordpress it can automatically add rewrite rules for your permalinks Just answer for the questions when you run ./vhost.sh

Here are another guides for full LNMP 0.8 setup!

• How to upload files to LNMP0.8 without SSH deamon

• How to setup DNS to point your domain to LNMP0.8 server ip

So enjoy your server and please add a comment if you are happy with outcome!

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I have always recommended linode ( A XEN VPS hosting company) for you! Checkout my last 100 day uptime review here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/linode-xen-vps-review/

Trust me guys its amazing experience which I’m having with Linode. Today I hit the milestone of 365 days of uptime on the VPS which hosts this blog. Now I have 4 Linode 512 plans on their London Data Center and another one which runs the web site of the company which I work on is having 371 of uptime as of now.

You can check my blogs uptime here - http://www.ruchirablog.com/uptime.php

My blog runs on Ubuntu 10.04LTS and Nginx is serving the requests, and my Linode never skipped a beat. And also the 2 VPS’s im having 1+ years of uptime are on different host boxes and its amazing.

You can find the network uptime graph of my blog by pingdom below

As you can see I only had 17 minutes of network downtime according to linode and longest downtime was 3 minutes. Do the math and you can find that I had about 99.9978% of network uptime while Linode promises us 99%.

I never had any problems with 4 of my VPS’s with linode and support is amazing and never took more than 10 minutes to answer any serious question.

And the exciting thing is its very hard to find a negative review about linode on the internet and even Linode got thousands of customers, I never able to find bad things like “I lost my data” on internet about linode.

Its the most amazing hosting experience I ever had in my life and I’ll give 10/10 marks for linode any day.

You can find my old detailed review here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/linode-xen-vps-review/

And if you wish to signup for linode you can do so here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/go/linode ( Its a referral link )

*Disclaimer- Linode hasn’t paid me cent to write this review and my expressions are solely based on my own experience!

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Recently one of my readers asked me that “Are you ran out of things to write? Why did you published 1 year old scene now” Well I’m very busy these days building my career on Telecommunications Engineering and Cisco track. But this doesnt means im out of time to write but when combined with personal things I’m little behind the scene these days. Never mind lets get to the topic,

Information

Linode is a XEN VPS provider based on 5 top data centers in USA and UK with unmatchable reputation around the web. They have in house developed Control panel to administrate the servers unlike many providers using third party scripts. Its CEO is Cold Fusion app developer and most of the web site sections including control panel are built on Adobe Cold Fusion programming language. Linode gives you freedom to install many Linux OS available and also your custom kernels. 100s of (maybe thousands) of Linode host machines running Ubuntu as host (dom0) to its virtualizer XEN. And its common truth that most of users of linode are using Ubuntu.

yesterday Ruchirablog hit a uptime record of 100 days and that’s the thing forced me to write this review!

Uptime and Stability

You might have read my post about hosting providers that I used and now I’m on linode for about 4 months and I must say that I’m very surprised with linode because its amazing. I didn’t had any downtime with them and now uptime is more than 100 days so far you can my uptime here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/uptime.php

I have 2 512MB VPS with them one for this blog and one for running my client business site and both VPS are on different Host servers and client VPS is having 107 days of uptime

root@s1 [~]# uptime
01:42:53 up 107 days, 22:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

That server is running Centos 5.5 with Cpanel and my blog is on Ubuntu 10.04 with Nginx Auto installer. Linode is the best thing to go if you concerned about uptime!

Support

And i should say that their support is awesome and I received response from support within 15 minutes all the time, most of the time it took about 5 minutes. I don’t know how they achieved this type of fast response times and its awesome!

There is a IRC channel that you can get much info in real time from support techs and other linux savvy users idling on there!

Control Panel

WOW this is the best thing that I ever seen to manage a server. Its completely built on Adobe Cold Fusion. Some people might wonder how this kind of apps built on Cold Fusion yes I’m still having that doubt too. Linode’s CEO is Cold Fusion app developer before he started the business and I think “Linode Manager” is the best web app ever built in this world! you can see screen shots of it here.

+Linode gives you free DNS service and can be configured as piece of cake in Linode Manager!

Final Thoughts

I will never ever go out from linode except if I need bandwidth like 5TB a month and try linode one time and you will get addicted yes thats true!

I’ll give overall rating to Linode 10/10 , for percent nerds its 100% marks

And If you convinced to try out linode by reading this article you can use my referral code to sign up and you can cancel on any day and get your money for remaining days back. It means if you payed $20 for first month and stayed with them for only 2 days linode will give your money back for remaining 28days of month. Using my referral code will earn me $20 if you stayed with linode for 3 months.

Here is sign up referral link – http://www.ruchirablog.com/go/linode

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Have you ever worried about your government,workplace,school or ISP limitations for web sites? Are you behind Great firewall of china? are you worried about browsing speeds with overloaded or slow web proxy services?

HTTP proxies are the best solution for you. And with squid cache you can make a nice HTTP proxy for your personal or family use.

In my case I have tried SSH SOCKS5 method for access blocked sites but I feel it too slow because connection is encrypted but its so secure than HTTP proxy.

But I don’t need much security like SOCKS5 offer So I have decided to setup squid as a proxy server for my personal use. And felt that its delivering blazing fast speed as same as I’m browsing without proxies.

So now all my firefox traffic is going through HTTP Squid proxy running on UK 512MB XEN box that I had spare and I don’t thinking about going back to normal no proxy mode because speed is same as no proxy.

So here is my guide to setup squid as a proxy server on ubuntu or debian for you!

What you will need-

• A VPS or dedicated server with minimum ram of 64MB (64MB of ram will be enough because squid doesn’t eat much ram)
• Debian or Ubuntu installed on your server
• NANO text editor installed on your server ( run “apt-get install nano” to install it if you dont have it already)

Steps-

Install squid on your ubuntu or debian server, issue this command over SSH

 apt-get install squid

Then squid is successfully installed and you need to setup squid to access internet because its currently set only for localhost

squid’s config file is huge so we need to find some lines using nano on squid config file.

Issue this commands to open squid config file with NANO text editor.

nano /etc/squid/squid.conf

On there we need to add 2 lines to configure this for our personal use.

You can add then on top of the page. those 2 lines are

http_access allow all

http_access allow localnet

Here is the squid.conf file after adding that 2 lines

So that’s it on server side. Restart squid to load our configuration.

 restart squid

Like I said previously on this guide I’m not focused on setting up security for squid like adding ACL (Access Control Lists) to prevent other users using your proxy etc.

But this is 1000 times better than setting up a php web based proxy to browse the web.

While server side setup complete we need to setup our web browsers to use our proxy. I think you are probably using firefox to browse the web so here is the configuration for firefox for other programs you can use the same.

On firefox navigate to Tools=>Options=>Advanced=>Network=>Settings=>Manual Proxy Configuration

On that page enter your IP address that squid is installed and port as 3128 because we didn’t changed the default squid port. Also click the checkbox “Use this proxy server for all protocols”

Thats it!

Note that

• We didn’t setup Access Control Lists so any one who knows your squid server ip address and port can use your proxy.
• When choosing a server for setting up squid for your use try to get a server which gives lowest ping times for your location which will help you to browse more fast.

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat was released few days ago and yes I have upgraded my Lucid Lynx to Meerkat 2 days ago so now this blog runs on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick meerkat and I have dropped centos on all of my servers because ubuntu is great and stable.

So the news is now Ubuntu team is giving out free trial of Ubuntu 10 cloud on Amazon EC2 instance for 1 hour. Its great if you want to try out Ubuntu 10 and amazon EC2 cloud instance how ever you don’t get the abilities to scale up your cloud and amazon ec2 control panel access. You will get EC2 instance with 1.7GB of ram for 1 hour to try our things on EC2 cloud.

Click here to signing up for free instance

You will have to sign in for ubuntu account or you can create a account for free after signing in you can request EC2 instance and you can try installing wordpress automatically on the cloud when ordering-

After requesting your EC2 will be built and it will take up about 5 minutes to complete-

Then you can SSH in to your amazon EC2 instance and start exploring the EC2 for a hour!

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Recently Net4Ever CEO contacted me about reviewing their shared hosting service after trying for some months because he said most customers thinks that its oversold because the low price. But I don’t had time for reviewing shared hosting because all of my sites require more than shared hosting.Those times I was needed a VPS for try out one of my new project. So I asked Branko (CEO of Net4Ever) that if he can supply VPS I can write a review after sometime. So he agreed to provide a vps for 6 months of testing. And he asked which location that I want to place my VPS. He offers 2 locations Germany,USA and 3 data centers in USA Softlayer Data center. I thought I must try Germany for my new project because Germany gives me low latency that USA data centers. The setup was instant and I received login details in less than a minute.

The VPS control panel is FluidVM and its very nice stable control panel these days.

And the initial expressions was great because there are many OS install options to choose from.

• AltLinux 2006.09.14 – 32 bit
• Arch Linux 2006.09.14 – 32 bit – RemoteDektop (NX)
• Arch Linux 2010.05 – 32 bit
• Arch Linux 2010.05 – 64 bit
• CentOS 5 – 32 bit
• CentOS 5 – 32 bit – Kloxo
• CentOS 5 – 64 bit
• CentOS 5 – 64 bit – cPanel
• Debian 5 – 32 bit
• Debian 5 – 32 bit – Minimal
• Debian 5 – 64 bit
• FedoraCore 12 – 32 bit
• FedoraCore 12 – 64 bit
• FedoraCore 12 – 64 bit – RemoteDektop (NX)
• openSUSE – 64 bit
• Slackware 13 – 32 bit
• Ubuntu 10.04 – 32 bit
• Ubuntu 10.04 – 32 bit – RemoteDektop (NX)
• Ubuntu 9.04 – 32 bit
• Ubuntu 9.04 – 64 bit
• Ubuntu 9.10 – 32 bit
• Ubuntu 9.10 – 64 bit

Yes that’s lots of options. And this is the first time that I ever seen this much of OS install options. I choose Centos 32bit kloxo for my project. And using it since and i must say that I never seen any downtime. Network speed is great. Most of people use Linux bench to benchmark the linux systems. But I’m using a different method . Even the CPU and RAM works nice the main thing affect for your VPS is Network speeds because even you have 8GB RAM in your system if the network cant provide good stability and speeds the performance will be poor.

So I ran Torrentflux to inspect what kind of network speeds that I can utilize all the times. I think running torrentflux is the best way to monitor the network performance for long time. And yes this is illegal in United states servers and most of webhosts. I hope Net4Ever won’t be angry because I ran torrentflux but its some kind of way that I test performance of servers. And I ran torrentflux with private torrent tracker for 72Hours uploading and downloading consistently.

The best thing is I was able to get more than 5MB/s (yes its MB/s not Mbps) in both direction uploading and downloading all the time! Its damn great speeds because their main node on 1Gbps port.

Conclusion-

• You can get nice network speeds with Net4Ever.eu
• Many OS templates to be choose from
• 100% of uptime for 2 months of my testing period
• Nice support from Net4Ever team
• Many Data Centers and locations to choose from

Important-

• Do not run torrentflux on VPS because it might hurt other users in the same node

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If you have busy site which gets thousands of visitors a day you might be having a hard time managing your server load. If you are using apache it makes it harder. The best decision is moving to nginx or lighttpd. If Im the one who manage the server Ill choose Nginx because its little bit ahead of lighttpd.

• If you are newbie for nginx read my guide for installing nginx with all the necessary packages- http://www.ruchirablog.com/nginxmysqlphpfpm-auto-installer-centos-5-debian/

Nginx beats apache in all aspects. Some people using Nginx as reverse proxy to apache its good solution but all the dynamic php content is handled by apache. This 2010 and most of the sites are dynamic !

• Now lets get to the topic

This is guide for using memcached with wordpress but this guide doesn’t cover how to install memcached ill explain that later! or please search google about installing memcached for your desired linux OS version.

So I’m assuming that you have installed Memcached with PHP memcached module,

• There are 2 popular wordpress plugins for use with memcached!

1. WP Memcached Manager http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-memcached-manager/ ( For viewing memcached data without log in to SSH)
2. W3 Total Cache http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ ( Must need for integration)

“WP Memcached Manager” is not necessary but it can be used to view some useful information about work of your memcached deamon. here is a screenshot of wp memcached manager installed on my blog-

You can install both of those plugins normally just use automatic plugin installer which is built in to wordpress!

And check your memcached deamon is running with wp memcached manager! Its very easy to configure wp memcached manager you just need to enter the ip and the port of your memcached deamon.

So if its running you need to disable any other caching plugins like WP-SuperCache and HyperCache which you used previously.

• Note- WP-Supercache is the best plugin out there for wordpress caching but unfortunately WP-Super cache only provide few options to work with memcached and it will not work correctly for most of the blog which use memcached

Then you need to configure W3-TotalCache to communicate with memcached deamon so w4 total cache will start storing your cached objects in memcached instance instead of disk.

Go to W3 total cache config page and run a compatibility check to ensure all the things are ok.

• W3 Total Cache will detect if you have installed memcached and then you only need to configure the option “Memcached” from check boxes.

So memcached will be used from now to cache your website. You can load your web site and view source to see its work!

Performance comparison Later!

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Hmm I know you probably noticed the last down time happened few hours ago. Thats because I crazily wanted to tune my blog to get maximum loading speed. Grrrr.

• What I had before,

I was installed centos 5.5+Nginx+PHP-FPM+Memcached on linode and trust me it was very fast. But I always wanted to tweak it to go further. Pingdom said that front page was loading at average of 4.5 seconds and it is pretty fast and beating most of CDN enabled sites out there! But hey I wanted to load pages in 2sec :EVIL

• What you did to get 2sec load time

I signed up fro amazon s3 and cloudfront to move my theme files and media files to edgecast cloud storage. Then started to move files to CDN with “W3 Total Cache” wordpress plugin and saw that some of images on my posts were pointing to amazon cloudfront domain instead of my own Cname domain. And also some of images were broken during upload. So I decided to get back to old state by restoring from a complete linux disk image backup made few hours ago.  And clicked “Restore”

• Then what happened

Things begun to change after this. The restoring process didn’t correctly deployed to disk and resulting the files got malfunctioned. OS really started but files got really messed up. Then I was so upset and  went ahead to try another backup image done 2 days ago and clicked “Restore” again. Sad thing is that backup image is malfunctioned also!

• Then?

I had to completely reinstall everything from scratch. This time I went with ubuntu lucid lynx instead of centos 5.5 because I always wanted to try Ubuntu because lots of guys recommended it! So after about 16 hours RuchiraBlog is back on business!

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Its very interesting to know about cloud computing and use it. These days most of resource hog high visitor web apps and web sites use Could services like Amazon EC2 to speed up their services. If you are web site administrator and like to work with linux maybe you will probably like to experience the could servers. Well CloudSigma now offers free 14 day trial of their cloud servers.

You can simly signup it doesnt asks for credit card information or that kind of thing for activation you just need to verify your order by phone( Confirm the code that cloudsigma send you via automated call or sms ). Just signup and Fedora is installed on default and you can build server with new OS with ease. You can choose many operating systems to install and some of them provide Remote Desktop access without messing up with linux ( You just need to install VNC client like tightVNC in your pc and use the login data which cloudsigma gives you to logon).

I have tested cloudsigma download network speed and always got more than 7Mbps. So its great. So if you want to try our cloud servers just signup here-  https://cs.cloudsigma.com/accounts/signup/

After signing up you will instantly receive a detail email to log on to your cloud server.

Here is a part of email that I received-

You have received an initial free trial period to evaluate our service, you will see your free capacity has already been credited to your account when you first login. During the trial period, you will need to log in at least once per week to keep your free capacity live. There is no such restriction for paid capacity. You will receive the following free capacity:

Trial account length:  14 days
CPU:  3.91 GHz
RAM:  4.88 GB
Storage:  100 GB
Bandwidth- incoming: 10GB (total)
Bandwidth- outgoing: 10GB (total)
Static IP addresses: 1
Dynamic IP addresses: Unlimited
VLAN: 1

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