nginx reverse proxy for R1Soft

Sometimes managing SSL on R1Soft can be a pain because you have to import the SSL certificate into the specific java format. This this post will be about how you can create a nginx reverse proxy for R1Soft. The backup system R1Soft uses something called “Keytool” to manage certificates and keys. This can be a … Continued

Glem nu Google Page Speed og YSlow score

Jeg ser rigtig mange folk der oftest søger hjælp til at gøre deres side hurtigere.. Eller rettere have en høj Page Speed Score.. Men Glem nu Google Page Speed og YSlow scoren. Det er den mest elendige score der nogensinde er opfundet, hvorfor? Fordi folk ikke forstår hvordan den virker, sjov påstand? Tja – men altså … Continued

Derfor skal du ikke vælge en VPS som iværksætter

Jeg skrev indlægget “Hvorfor VPS med lokal storage ikke holder.” Den bygger på den tekniske baggrund omkring VPS’er og tildelte ressourcer, men forklarer ikke hvorfor du ikke skal vælge en VPS som iværksætter, og i sidste ende koste dig kunder (og omsætning). Kender du det med at din virksomheds hjemmeside bliver nævnt på en nyhedsside, … Continued

Hvorfor VPS med lokal storage ikke holder

Jeg ser rigtig mange mennesker der anbefaler at man skal bruge en VPS fremfor f.eks. shared hosting. Og begrundelsen er altid “Det vil være hurtigere”. Men denne blogpost handler om hvorfor VPS med lokal storage ikke holder som det skal, og hvorfor du skal passe på med at købe disse. Der findes en række VPS … Continued

R1Soft ‘unable to open snapshot device’

R1Soft is a great backup solution because it allows you to do incremental (block device) backups down to every 15 minutes. But we all know that no software is perfect, and sometimes the lack of information can give frustrations because the fixes are not always that easy to find. One of them which I’ve seen happen … Continued

Use KernelCare and stop rebooting

Use KernelCare and stop rebooting sounds awesome, and it indeed is. One of the things I used to hate the most by maintaining servers was kernel updates, not only because it requires rebooting the system which causes downtime. But also because rebooting a system is a nightmare, because you don’t know what will happen when … Continued

Add R1Soft to Paper Lantern

cPanel was released just a few days ago, which includes a major upgrade to the Paper Lantern theme, but since the theme is working differently I’m going to explain how to add r1soft to Paper Lantern. Since Paper Lantern was introduced, the way of installing plugins work a little differently, you need to create your … Continued

Replication using lsyncd

Sometimes it happens that you want to sync to servers, this could be e.g. load balancing of a site, surely you can always make a master/slave MySQL setup for your database, but you also need to sync all the data, so this post will be about replication using lsyncd which is a small daemon you … Continued

Fix bandwidth statistics in Bandmin

I recently took a look at the built-in bandmin interface in cPanel and found out that the bandwidth stats doesn’t work as they should, to be very specific the transfer in kbit/s, kb/s, mbit/s doesn’t show the right result. So I’ll show you how to fix bandwidth statistics in Bandmin. The whole problem is the … Continued

NGINX restarts on cPanel servers

Today we’ll fix NGINX restarts on cPanel servers. When running NGINX on a cPanel server, it often requires that you put a restart of NGINX inside your httpd init script to make NGINX and Apache restart at same time to get the changes updated. The problem people often will find is that cPanel from time … Continued