Basic Steps Taken to Diagnose and Fix a Compromised or Heavy Resource Consuming Server

Recently one of my servers most probably got hacked (compromised). As I logged into my linode manager it said 200% bandwidth usage and it was growing at about 1gb per 1-2 mins (checked with iftop). So I opened a support ticket and asked a couple of linode fellows for help.

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Quick Tip: Fixing Locale Warnings/Notices Issues on Linux Server (or Desktop)

Some locale issues (errors, warnings or notices) might bug you on a linux box (in my case Ubuntu) when executing various commands:

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