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

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

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

Things I’ve learned by hosting websites

There’s a few things I’ve learned by hosting websites, some of them should be pretty obvious where others might be obvious after you’ve made a mistake. #1: Use raid on your system I must admit, the first server I ever had, didn’t have any raid. It had two disks, but no raid. Back then, I … Continued

Don’t use Better WP Security

Don’t use Better WP Security. Okay, use it, but only once. The plugin is great, it analyse your WordPress site, and give you 20 items, that is either Okay, or needs to be fixed. This is usually how a WordPress installation can look like, and yes, some points are good to fix, and the plugin … Continued

Fix Nginx bandwidth issue in cPanel

At Hosting4Real we’ve been using Nginx in production as a reverse proxy for quite some time. But using Nginx doesn’t come without problems, one of them is bandwidth calculation. So this blog post will go over how to fix Nginx bandwidth issue in cPanel. You’ll actually be facing multiple problems, about bandwidth reporting, this is due … Continued

Using cloudstats

I’ve tried a lot of monitoring tools for websites and servers, tools like Pingdom.com, Pingfinity.io, New Relic, StatusCake.com. All tools work great, and I use all of them on a daily basis, it seems like overkill to have 4 monitoring services running, but whatever I’ve also started using cloudstats.me. I actually found the site while … Continued

Using imapsync

I’ve recently needed to do a big migration of some webshops, including a lot of email accounts from a non-cPanel server to a cPanel server, this means you’re quite limited with the migration, and in this case very limited. There was no possible way to do a backup, so everything needed to be migrated using … Continued

New Relic and CloudLinux

To use New Relic and CloudLinux (with CageFS) together, you have to do some changes to your configuration. This post assumes that you use EasyApache 4.   Some time ago I wrote a blog post “Auto deploy New Relic apps in cPanel“, which covers steps how to make each account in cPanel their own application … Continued