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
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
Today I want to tell how to stop brute force attacks on WordPress installations, the reason is that we’re having a huge botnet, trying to gain access to WordPress installations. The size of the botnet is measured to be more than 100.000 unique IP’s and is probably already way bigger than in the beginning. The … Continued
People that use cpanel, as their control panel of their servers, probably know about virtfs. In cpanel 11.38 virtfs got changed to improve security, and some other small changes. For those who don’t know what virtfs is: VirtFS provides a jailed shell environment for the user, the good thing about this, is that the user … Continued
When using cpanel as a control panel for shared hosting, you’re by default forced to use Apache. The reason behind this is that it’s the most common webserver, but Apache is often using a lot of memory when you could lower this. A good choice is to put nginx in front. There’s multiple options for … Continued
Sometimes it might be useful to make a single access log on cPanel servers, if you need to either investigate a problem, or you just need to get some general information from all sites hosted on a specific server, it could be the number of requests to wp-cron.php etc. In cPanel all log files is … Continued
Today I was looking for a way to add an invoice to existing product in WHMCS, because I had a few people that was imported using the cpanel/WHM importer in WHMCS. I was searching a little on google, and I found the methods really weird, like deleting the client, manually adding the client again, set … Continued
Yesterday I saw a tweet, about if an internal link should contain the domain name or not, so be absolute or relative. The reply I saw, was that using the domain name, could prevent people from ‘copying’ the text directly, because it would contain the link for the original domain. Which is true. But on … Continued
Some shared hosting, including my own company Hosting4Real use New Relic to monitor the servers. But often it would be nice, to be able to track each customers performance, for providing even better support, but deploying the ‘apps’ manually takes a lot of time, if you have tons of customers. So we can auto deploy new … Continued